vulnerability

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-16227: quagga security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Oct 29, 2017
Added
Dec 4, 2017
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

The aspath_put function in bgpd/bgp_aspath.c in Quagga before 1.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session drop) via BGP UPDATE messages, because AS_PATH size calculation for long paths counts certain bytes twice and consequently constructs an invalid message.

Solution

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-quagga
Title
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