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SUSE: CVE-2017-16227: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-16227: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2018
Modified
06/20/2021

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(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libfpm_pb0
  • suse-upgrade-libospf0
  • suse-upgrade-libospfapiclient0
  • suse-upgrade-libquagga_pb0
  • suse-upgrade-libzebra1
  • suse-upgrade-quagga
  • suse-upgrade-quagga-devel

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:0455-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0456-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0457-1
  • DSA-4011
  • CVE-2017-16227
  • USN-3471-1

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