Quagga could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
It was 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-2012-0249, CVE-2012-0250)
15 May 2012
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Quagga could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
It was 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-2012-0249, CVE-2012-0250)
It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled messages with a malformed Four-octet AS Number Capability. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2012-0255)
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.
This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes. After a standard system update you need to restart Quagga to make all the necessary changes.
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