7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2016-4049

Published: 23/05/2016 Updated: 30/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The bgp_dump_routes_func function in bgpd/bgp_dump.c in Quagga does not perform size checks when dumping data, which might allow remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via a large BGP packet.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Moderate: quagga security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for quagga is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base ...
Several security issues were fixed in Quagga ...
Debian Bug report logs - #822787 quagga: CVE-2016-4049: Missing size check in bgp_dump_routes_func in bgpd/bgp_dumpc allowing DoS Package: src:quagga; Maintainer for src:quagga is Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweirdcouk>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:06:02 UTC Se ...
Debian Bug report logs - #835223 quagga: CVE-2016-4036 Package: src:quagga; Maintainer for src:quagga is Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweirdcouk>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:30:10 UTC Severity: important Tags: security Found in versions quagga/099224-1, quag ...
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in quagga, a BGP/OSPF/RIP routing daemon CVE-2016-4036 Tamás Németh discovered that sensitive configuration files in /etc/quagga were world-readable despite containing sensitive information CVE-2016-4049 Evgeny Uskov discovered that a bgpd instance handling many peers could be cras ...
A denial of service flaw was found in the Quagga BGP routing daemon (bgpd) Under certain circumstances, a remote attacker could send a crafted packet to crash the bgpd daemon resulting in denial of service ...