Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1293-1 quagga -- out of boundary read

Date Reported:

17 May 2007

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 418323.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 23417.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-1995.

More information:

Paul Jakma discovered that specially crafted UPDATE messages can trigger an out of boundary read that can result in a system crash of quagga, the BGP/OSPF/RIP routing daemon.

For the old stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.98.3-7.4.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.5-5etch2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.6-5.

We recommend that you upgrade your quagga package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga-doc_0.98.3-7.4_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_arm.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.4_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga-doc_0.99.5-5etch2_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2_arm.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2_ia64.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.