#VU44160 Buffer overflow in Quagga - CVE-2012-0250
Published: April 5, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU44160
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0250
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Quagga
Quagga
Software vendor:
quagga.net
quagga.net
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
Buffer overflow in the OSPFv2 implementation in ospfd in Quagga before 0.99.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a Link State Update (aka LS Update) packet containing a network-LSA link-state advertisement for which the data-structure length is smaller than the value in the Length header field.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
External links
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078794.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078910.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078926.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1258.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1259.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48949
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2459
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/551715