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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3695-1                   security@debian.org
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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Debian: DSA-3695-1: quagga security update

October 18, 2016
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

Summary

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/

Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

Severity
Package : quagga
CVE ID : CVE-2016-1245
Debian Bug : 841162

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