RHEL 6 : quagga (RHSA-2012:1259)

high Nessus Plugin ID 62070

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for quagga.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2012:1259 advisory.

- Quagga (ospf6d): Stack-based buffer overflow while decoding Link State Update packet with malformed Inter Area Prefix LSA (CVE-2011-3323)

- Quagga (ospf6d): Denial of service by decoding malformed Database Description packet headers (CVE-2011-3324)

- Quagga (ospfd): Denial of service by decoding too short Hello packet or Hello packet with invalid OSPFv2 header type (CVE-2011-3325)

- Quagga (ospfd): Denial of service by decoding Link State Update LSAs of unknown type (CVE-2011-3326)

- Quagga (bgpd): Heap-based buffer overflow by decoding BGP UPDATE message with unknown AS_PATH attributes (CVE-2011-3327)

- quagga (ospfd): Assertion failure due improper length check for a received LS-Update OSPF packet (CVE-2012-0249)

- quagga (ospfd): Crash by processing LS-Update OSPF packet due improper length check of the Network-LSA structures (CVE-2012-0250)

- quagga (bgpd): Assertion failure by processing malformed AS4 capability in BGP OPEN message (CVE-2012-0255)

- quagga (bgpd): Assertion failure by processing BGP OPEN message with malformed ORF capability TLV (VU#962587) (CVE-2012-1820)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL quagga package based on the guidance in RHSA-2012:1259.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?ea45eca3

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1259

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738393

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738394

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738396

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738398

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738400

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802781

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802827

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802829

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=817580

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 62070

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2012-1259.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/13/2012

Updated: 4/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3327

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3325

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:quagga, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:quagga-contrib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:quagga-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/12/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-3323, CVE-2011-3324, CVE-2011-3325, CVE-2011-3326, CVE-2011-3327, CVE-2012-0249, CVE-2012-0250, CVE-2012-0255, CVE-2012-1820

BID: 49784, 52531, 53775

CWE: 121, 122

RHSA: 2012:1259