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Debian 5.0 DSA-1787-1 Critical: Quagga Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey May 4, 2009
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Serious vulnerability in Quagga routing software causes service interruption. Urgent update recommended for Debian users to address this critical threat.
It was discovered that Quagga, an IP routing daemon, could no longer process the Internet routing table due to broken handling of multiple 4-byte AS numbers in an AS path

Summary

It was discovered that Quagga, an IP routing daemon, could no longer
process the Internet routing table due to broken handling of multiple
4-byte AS numbers in an AS path. If such a prefix is received, the
BGP daemon crashes with an assert failure, leading to a denial of
service.

The old stable distribution (etch) is not affected by this issue.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.99.10-1lenny2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.99.11-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your quagga package.

Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper con...

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Package: quagga

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