Debian: DSA-3695-1: quagga security update

Date18 Oct 2016

Posted ByLinuxSecurity Advisories

It was discovered that the zebra daemon in the Quagga routing suite suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when processing IPv6 Neighbor Discovery messages.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3695-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                           Florian Weimer
October 18, 2016                      https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : quagga
CVE ID         : CVE-2016-1245
Debian Bug     : 841162

It was discovered that the zebra daemon in the Quagga routing suite
suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when processing IPv6
Neighbor Discovery messages.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.99.23.1-1+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your quagga packages.

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