GLSA 200605-15: Quagga Routing Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities
| Severity: | normal |
| Title: | Quagga Routing Suite: Multiple vulnerabilities |
| Date: | 05/21/2006 |
| Bugs: | |
| ID: | 200605-15 |
Synopsis
Quagga's RIP daemon allows the injection of routes and the disclosure of routing information. The BGP daemon is vulnerable to a Denial of Service.Background
The Quagga Routing Suite implements three major routing protocols: RIP (v1/v2/v3), OSPF (v2/v3) and BGP4.
Affected packages
| Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| net-misc/quagga | < 0.98.6-r1 | >= 0.98.6-r1 | All supported architectures |
Description
Konstantin V. Gavrilenko discovered two flaws in the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) daemon that allow the processing of RIP v1 packets (carrying no authentication) even when the daemon is configured to use MD5 authentication or, in another case, even if RIP v1 is completely disabled. Additionally, Fredrik Widell reported that the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) daemon contains a flaw that makes it lock up and use all available CPU when a specific command is issued from the telnet interface.
Impact
By sending RIP v1 response packets, an unauthenticated attacker can alter the routing table of a router running Quagga's RIP daemon and disclose routing information. Additionally, it is possible to lock up the BGP daemon from the telnet interface.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
All Quagga users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/quagga-0.98.6-r1"
References
Availability
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License
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