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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-b89a945e9d
2017-02-09 16:27:58.036214
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Name        : quagga
Product     : Fedora 25
Version     : 0.99.24.1
Release     : 5.fc25
URL         : Summary     : Routing daemon
Description :
Quagga is free software that operates TCP/IP-based routing protocols. It takes
a multi-server and multi-threaded approach to resolving the current complexity
of the Internet.

Quagga supports Babel, BGP4, BGP4+, BGP4-, IS-IS (experimental), 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.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2017-5495
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1416017 - CVE-2017-5495 quagga: Telnet interface input buffer allocates unbounded amounts of memory [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416017
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade quagga' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 25: quagga Security Update

February 9, 2017
Fix for CVE-2017-5495

Summary

Quagga is free software that operates TCP/IP-based routing protocols. It takes

a multi-server and multi-threaded approach to resolving the current complexity

of the Internet.

Quagga supports Babel, BGP4, BGP4+, BGP4-, IS-IS (experimental), 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:

Fix for CVE-2017-5495

Change Log

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1416017 - CVE-2017-5495 quagga: Telnet interface input buffer allocates unbounded amounts of memory [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416017

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade quagga' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

Severity
Name : quagga
Product : Fedora 25
Version : 0.99.24.1
Release : 5.fc25
URL : Summary : Routing daemon

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