Debian 8: DSA-3695-1 Critical Quagga Buffer Overflow in Zebra Daemon
debian
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
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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/
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Package: quagga
CVE ID: CVE-2016-1245
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