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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Quagga vulnerabilities (USN-3102-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 94068

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3102-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled dumping data. A remote attacker could possibly use a large BGP packet to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-4049)

 It was discovered that the Quagga package incorrectly set permissions on the configuration directory. A local user could use this issue to possibly obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-4036)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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 affected quagga package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3102-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 94068

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3102-1.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2016

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4036

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:quagga

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/13/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4036, CVE-2016-4049

USN: 3102-1