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Debian: DSA-2316-1 Critical: Quagga Remote Exploit Patch Released

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Calendar Grey October 5, 2011
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Riku Hietamaki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered several vulnerabilities in Quagga, an Internet routing daemon: CVE-2011-3323

Summary

Riku Hietamaki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered several
vulnerabilities in Quagga, an Internet routing daemon:

CVE-2011-3323
A stack-based buffer overflow while decoding Link State Update
packets with a malformed Inter Area Prefix LSA can cause the
ospf6d process to crash or (potentially) execute arbitrary
code.

CVE-2011-3324
The ospf6d process can crash while processing a Database
Description packet with a crafted Link-State-Advertisement.

CVE-2011-3325
The ospfd process can crash while processing a crafted Hello
packet.

CVE-2011-3326
The ospfd process crashes while processing
Link-State-Advertisements of a type not known to Quagga.

CVE-2011-3327
A heap-based buffer overflow while processing BGP UPDATE
messages containing an Extended Communities path attribute
can cause the bgpd process to crash or (potentially) execute
arbitrary code.

The OSPF-related vulnerabilities require that potential attackers send
packets to a vulnerable Quagga router; the packets are not distributed
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Package: quagga
CVE ID: CVE-2011-3323 CVE-2011-3324 CVE-2011-3325 CVE-2011-3326 CVE-2011-3327

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