Resource management error in Quagga - CVE-2011-3326

 

Resource management error in Quagga - CVE-2011-3326

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


Vulnerability identifier: #VU44629
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-3326
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: quagga.net
Affected software:
Quagga

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The ospf_flood function in ospf_flood.c in ospfd in Quagga before 0.99.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an invalid Link State Advertisement (LSA) type in an IPv4 Link State Update message.


How to mitigate CVE-2011-3326

Install update from vendor's website.

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