USN-461-1: Quagga vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-461-1

17th May, 2007

quagga vulnerability

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

  • Ubuntu 7.04
  • Ubuntu 6.10
  • Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

Details

It was discovered that Quagga did not correctly verify length
information sent from configured peers. Remote malicious peers could
send a specially crafted UPDATE message which would cause bgpd to abort,
leading to a denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.04:
quagga 0.99.6-2ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu 6.10:
quagga 0.99.4-4ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
quagga 0.99.2-1ubuntu3.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

CVE-2007-1995