Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1788-1 quagga -- improper assertion
- Date Reported:
- 04 May 2009
- Affected Packages:
- quagga
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 526311.
- More information:
-
It was discovered that Quagga, an IP routing daemon, could no longer process the Internet routing table due to broken handling of multiple 4-byte AS numbers in an AS path. If such a prefix is received, the BGP daemon crashes with an assert failure, leading to a denial of service.
The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected by this issue.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.10-1lenny2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.11-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your quagga package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga-doc_0.99.10-1lenny2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2_i386.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.10-1lenny2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.