SB2017020112 - Fedora 25 update for quagga
Published: February 1, 2017 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017020112
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory corruption (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-5495)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to unbounded memory allocation in the telnet 'vty' CLI. A remote attacker able to connect to the TCP ports can send very long strings without a newline, cause the Quagga daemon to allocate unbounded memory and system crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.