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Out-of-Bounds Affecting quagga-contrib package, versions <0:0.99.15-14.el6

Severity

 Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
20.83% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE6-QUAGGACONTRIB-2512719
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed24 Jan 2017
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Introduced: 24 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-5495  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:6 quagga-contrib to version 0:0.99.15-14.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2017-0794.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream quagga-contrib package and not the quagga-contrib package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

All versions of Quagga, 0.93 through 1.1.0, are vulnerable to an unbounded memory allocation in the telnet 'vty' CLI, leading to a Denial-of-Service of Quagga daemons, or even the entire host. When Quagga daemons are configured with their telnet CLI enabled, anyone who can connect to the TCP ports can trigger this vulnerability, prior to authentication. Most distributions restrict the Quagga telnet interface to local access only by default. The Quagga telnet interface 'vty' input buffer grows automatically, without bound, so long as a newline is not entered. This allows an attacker to cause the Quagga daemon to allocate unbounded memory by sending very long strings without a newline. Eventually the daemon is terminated by the system, or the system itself runs out of memory. This is fixed in Quagga 1.1.1 and Free Range Routing (FRR) Protocol Suite 2017-01-10.