An attacker could send crafted input to Quagga and cause it to crash.
It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly parsed certain malformed extended communities. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-1674)
29 March 2011
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
An attacker could send crafted input to Quagga and cause it to crash.
It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly parsed certain malformed extended communities. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-1674)
It was discovered that Quagga resets BGP sessions when encountering malformed AS_PATHLIMIT attributes. A remote attacker could use this flaw to disrupt BGP sessions, resulting in a denial of service. This update removes AS_PATHLIMIT support from Quagga. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.10, 10.04 LTS and 10.10. (CVE-2010-1675)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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