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USN-775-1: Quagga vulnerability

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USN-775-1: Quagga vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/06/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The BGP daemon (bgpd) in Quagga 0.99.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an AS path containing ASN elements whose string representation is longer than expected, which triggers an assert error.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-quagga

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