#VU10655 Memory corruption in Quagga - CVE-2018-5378

 

#VU10655 Memory corruption in Quagga - CVE-2018-5378

Published: February 19, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10655
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5378
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Quagga
Software vendor:
quagga.net

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the Quagga BGP daemon due to failure to properly bounds check data sent with a NOTIFY to a peer by the Quagga BGP daemon, bgpd. A remote attacker can send specially crafted input and cause the bgpd process or the daemon to crash.

Remediation

Update to version 1.2.3.

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