Debian DSA-3695-1 : quagga - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 94116

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that the zebra daemon in the Quagga routing suite suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when processing IPv6 Neighbor Discovery messages.

Solution

Upgrade the quagga packages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.23.1-1+deb8u3.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 94116

File Name: debian_DSA-3695.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/19/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:quagga

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1245

DSA: 3695

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