quagga vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-2342   CVE-2013-2236  

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

Kostya Kortchinsky discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain route data when configured with BGP peers enabled for VPNv4. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2342)

24 March 2016

quagga vulnerabilities

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

  • Ubuntu 15.10
  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 12.04 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

Kostya Kortchinsky discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain route data when configured with BGP peers enabled for VPNv4. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2342)

It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled messages with a large LSA when used in certain configurations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-2236)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 15.10
quagga - 0.99.24.1-2ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
quagga - 0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
quagga - 0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.4

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

After a standard system update you need to restart Quagga to make all the necessary changes.

References