Debian Security Advisory

DLA-662-1 quagga -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
18 Oct 2016
Affected Packages:
quagga
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 841162.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-1245.
More information:

It was discovered that there was stack overrun in IPv6 RA receive code in quagga, a BGP/OSPF/RIP routing daemon.

The buffer size specified when receiving mixed up two constants that have different values.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, this issue has been fixed in quagga version 0.99.22.4-1+wheezy3+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your quagga packages.