Debian Security Advisory

DSA-415-1 zebra -- denial of service

Date Reported:
06 Jan 2004
Affected Packages:
zebra
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9029.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0795, CVE-2003-0858.
More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in zebra, an IP routing daemon:

  • CAN-2003-0795 - a bug in the telnet CLI could allow a remote attacker to cause a zebra process to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
  • CAN-2003-0858 - netlink messages sent by other users (rather than the kernel) would be accepted, leading to a denial of service.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.92a-5woody2.

The zebra package has been obsoleted in the unstable distribution by GNU Quagga, where this problem was fixed in version 0.96.4x-4.

We recommend that you update your zebra package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra-doc_0.92a-5woody2_all.deb
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/z/zebra/zebra_0.92a-5woody2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.