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Gentoo: GLSA-200705-05 Normal: Quagga Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey May 2, 2007
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A newly identified flaw in Quagga poses a risk of Denial of Service on Gentoo installations. Immediate update is necessary for safeguarding.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Quagga allowing for a Denial of Service.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-05 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Quagga: Denial of Service Date: May 02, 2007 Bugs: #174206 ID: 200705-05

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been discovered in Quagga allowing for a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Quagga is a free routing daemon, supporting RIP, OSPF and BGP protocols.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/quagga < 0.98.6-r2 >= 0.98.6-r2
========== The Quagga development team reported a vulnerability in the BGP routing deamon when processing NLRI attributes inside UPDATE messages.
Impact ===== A malicious peer inside a BGP area could send a specially...

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