Syrian Internet Connection Cut Off Again

For the second time this month, the civil war-torn nation of Syria lost its connection to the Internet this morning before emerging from the Internet blackout several hours later, according to information provided by Arbor Networks. Google’s Transparency report webpage revealed that at around 2:5...

Internet Blocked Briefly in Syria

Sometime around 2:45 PM EDT yesterday, Syria’s BGP routes were severed and the country disappeared from the Internet. Just as quickly as it had fallen, Syria came back online this morning. In March, the Middle Eastern nation entered the third year of a violent conflict in which the country’s ruli...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : quagga (MDVSA-2013:122)

Updated quagga package fixes security vulnerability : The bgpcapabilityorf function in bgpd in Quagga 0.99.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service assertion failure and daemon exit by leveraging a BGP peering relationship and sending a malformed Outbound Route...

Nmap NSE 6.01: asn-query

Maps IP addresses to autonomous system AS numbers. The script works by sending DNS TXT queries to a DNS server which in turn queries a third-party service provided by Team Cymru team-cymru.org using an in-addr.arpa style zone set up especially for use by Nmap. The responses to these queries conta...

Juniper Junos BGP UPDATE DoS (PSN-2012-10-733)

According to its self-reported version number, the remote Junos device could crash when processing a BGP UPDATE message containing a specially crafted flow specification NLRI. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; ...

USN-1605-1: Quagga vulnerability

It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain malformed messages. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

Cisco IOS Software Malformed Border Gateway Protocol Attribute Vulnerability (cisco-sa-20120926-bgp)

Cisco IOS Software contains a vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol BGP routing protocol feature. The vulnerability can be triggered when the router receives a malformed attribute from a peer on an existing BGP session. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can cause all BGP sessio...

Cisco Patches Numerous Bugs in IOS, UCM

Cisco has released nine security advisories for various products, including eight for its ubiquitous IOS operating system. Many of the vulnerabilities fixed in the patch release are denial-of-service flaws and none of them can give an attacker the ability to run code remotely on affected machines...

Design/Logic Flaw

The BGP implementation in Cisco IOS 15.2, IOS XE 3.5.xS before 3.5.2S, and IOS XR 4.1.0 through 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service multiple connection resets by leveraging a peer relationship and sending a malformed attribute, aka Bug IDs CSCtt35379, CSCty58300, CSCtz63248...

CVE-2012-4617

The BGP implementation in Cisco IOS 15.2, IOS XE 3.5.xS before 3.5.2S, and IOS XR 4.1.0 through 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service multiple connection resets by leveraging a peer relationship and sending a malformed attribute, aka Bug IDs CSCtt35379, CSCty58300, CSCtz63248...

CVE-2012-4617

The BGP implementation in Cisco IOS 15.2, IOS XE 3.5.xS before 3.5.2S, and IOS XR 4.1.0 through 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service multiple connection resets by leveraging a peer relationship and sending a malformed attribute, aka Bug IDs CSCtt35379, CSCty58300, CSCtz63248...

CVE-2012-4617

The CVE-2012-4617 issue affects Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR BGP implementations. A vulnerability exists where a router can be driven to a DoS by processing a malformed BGP attribute received from a peer on an existing BGP session, triggering multiple connection/session resets. The affected prod...

Cisco IOS Software Malformed Border Gateway Protocol Attribute Vulnerability

Cisco IOS Software contains a vulnerability in the Border Gateway Protocol BGP routing protocol feature. The vulnerability can be triggered when the router receives a malformed attribute from a peer on an existing BGP session. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can cause all BGP...

CentOS Update for quagga CESA-2012:1259 centos6

Check for the Version of quagga OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for quagga CESA-2012:1259 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th...

CentOS Update for quagga CESA-2012:1258 centos5

Check for the Version of quagga OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for quagga CESA-2012:1258 centos5 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th...

RedHat Update for quagga RHSA-2012:1259-01

Check for the Version of quagga OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for quagga RHSA-2012:1259-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

RedHat Update for quagga RHSA-2012:1259-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CentOS Update for quagga CESA-2012:1259 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

RedHat Update for quagga RHSA-2012:1258-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Scientific Linux Security Update : quagga on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120912)

A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the bgpd daemon processed malformed Extended Communities path attributes. An attacker could send a specially crafted BGP message, causing bgpd on a target system to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user...