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Fedora 10 Quagga 0.99.12-1 Critical ASN4 Assert Crash Mitigation

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Calendar Grey May 21, 2009
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Quagga routing service patch for Fedora 10 resolves ASN4 assertion failure bug. Update is advised for enhanced network reliability.
The latest upstream version fixes serious assert crashing with ASN4's.

Summary

Quagga is a free software that manages TCP/IP based routing

protocol. It takes multi-server and multi-thread approach to resolve

the current complexity of the Internet.

Quagga supports BGP4, BGP4+, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIPv1, RIPv2, and RIPng.

Quagga is intended to be used as a Route Server and a Route Reflector. It is

not a toolkit, it provides full routing power under a new architecture.

Quagga by design has a process for each protocol.

Quagga is a fork of GNU Zebra.

Update Information:

The latest upstream version fixes serious assert crashing with ASN4's.

Change Log

* Wed May 20 2009 Jiri Skala - 0.99.12-1 - update to latest upstream version - fix #499960 - BGPd in Quagga prior to 0.99.12 has a serious assert problem crashing with ASN4's * Mon May 4 2009 Jiri Skala - 0.99.10-3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #499033 - CVE-2009-1572 quagga: crash in bgpd when receiving updates containing asn32 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499033

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update quagga' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: quagga
Product: Fedora 10
Version: 0.99.12
Release: 1.fc10
URL: Summary : Routing daemon

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