Resource management error in Quagga - CVE-2011-3324

 

Resource management error in Quagga - CVE-2011-3324

Published: October 10, 2011 / Updated: August 11, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU44627
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3324
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

The ospf6_lsa_is_changed function in ospf6_lsa.c in the OSPFv3 implementation in ospf6d in Quagga before 0.99.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via trailing zero values in the Link State Advertisement (LSA) header list of an IPv6 Database Description message.


Affected software

Quagga
SUSE Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2011-3324

Install update from vendor's website.


External References

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