Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2497-1 quagga -- denial of service
- Date Reported:
- 20 Jun 2012
- Affected Packages:
- quagga
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 676510.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-1820. - More information:
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It was discovered that Quagga, a routing daemon, contains a vulnerability in processing the ORF capability in BGP OPEN messages. A malformed OPEN message from a previously configured BGP peer could cause bgpd to crash, causing a denial of service.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.20.1-0+squeeze3.
For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.21-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your quagga packages.