[Full-disclosure] [MU-200709-01] Quagga bgpd Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Quagga bgpd Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability [MU-200709-01]
September 12, 2007

http://labs.musecurity.com/advisories.html

Affected Products/Versions:

Quagga 0.99.8

Product Overview:

Quagga is a routing software suite. Quagga bgpd implements the BGP
routing protocol.

http://www.quagga.net/

Vulnerability Details:

There are two vulnerabilities. In both vulnerabilies, the attacker
must be a configured peer.

A BGP OPEN message with an invalid message length and a valid option
parameters length (or vice versa) from a configured peer can cause a
assertion failure in the stream library.

An empty or malformed COMMUNITIES attribute in an UPDATE from a
configured peer can cause a NULL pointer dereference when the
attribute is printed if "debug bgp updates" is enabled.

Vendor Response / Solution:

Update to 0.99.9, available from http://www.quagga.net/

History:

August 29, 2007 - First contact with vendor
August 30, 2007 - Vendor acknowledges vulnerability
August 31, 2007 - Second issue reported
September 1, 2007 - Vendor acknowledges second vulnerability
September 7, 2007 - Vendor releases 0.99.9
September 12, 2007 - Advisory released

Credit:

This vulnerability was discovered by the Mu Security research team.

http://labs.musecurity.com/pgpkey.txt

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