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Ubuntu 11.10 USN-1261-1 Moderate Quagga Denial Of Service

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Quagga could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1261-1
November 14, 2011

quagga vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.10
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Quagga could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially
crafted network traffic.

Software Description:
- quagga: BGP/OSPF/RIP routing daemon

Details:

Riku Hietamäki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Quagga
incorrectly handled Link State Update messages with invalid lengths. A
remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in
a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3323)

Riku Hietamäki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Quagga
incorrectly handled certain IPv6 Database Description messages. A remote
attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2011-3324)

Riku Hietamäki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Quagga
incorrectly handled certain IPv4 packets. A remote attacker could use this
flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-3325)

Riku Hietamäki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Quagga
incorrectly handled invalid Link State Advertisement (LSA) types. A remote
attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2011-3326)

Riku Hietamäki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto discovered that Quagga
incorrectly handled certain BGP UPDATE messages. A remote attacker could
use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2011-3327)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 11.10:
  quagga                          0.99.18-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
  quagga                          0.99.17-4ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 10.10:
  quagga                          0.99.17-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  quagga                          0.99.15-1ubuntu0.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  
  CVE-2011-3323, CVE-2011-3324, CVE-2011-3325, CVE-2011-3326,
  CVE-2011-3327

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.18-2ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.17-4ubuntu1.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.17-1ubuntu0.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.15-1ubuntu0.3


Ubuntu 11.10 USN-1261-1 Moderate Quagga Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2011
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The vulnerabilities in Quagga permit distant adversaries to induce system crashes or run arbitrary code through specially crafted packets, impacting various versions of Ubuntu.
Quagga could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 11.10: quagga 0.99.18-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 11.04: quagga 0.99.17-4ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 10.10: quagga 0.99.17-1ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: quagga 0.99.15-1ubuntu0.3 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2011-3323, CVE-2011-3324, CVE-2011-3325, CVE-2011-3326,

CVE-2011-3327

November 14, 2011

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.18-2ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.17-4ubuntu1.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.17-1ubuntu0.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.15-1ubuntu0.3

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