vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2021-44038): quagga vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 19, 2021
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in Quagga through 1.2.4. Unsafe chown/chmod operations in the suggested spec file allow users (with control of the non-root-owned directory /etc/quagga) to escalate their privileges to root upon package installation or update.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
Title
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