Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting quagga/quagga package, versions [,0.99.17)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
18.35% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QUAGGAQUAGGA-2374149
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Sept 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Sep 2010

CVE-2010-2949  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade quagga/quagga to version 0.99.17 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) bgpd in Quagga before 0.99.17 does not properly parse AS paths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an unknown AS type in an AS path attribute in a BGP UPDATE message.

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