USN-3102-1: Quagga vulnerabilities

13 October 2016

Several security issues were fixed in Quagga.

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Releases

Packages

  • quagga - BGP/OSPF/RIP routing daemon

Details

It was discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled dumping data. A remote
attacker could possibly use a large BGP packet to cause Quagga to crash,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-4049)

It was discovered that the Quagga package incorrectly set permissions on
the configuration directory. A local user could use this issue to possibly
obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2016-4036)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04

After a standard system update you need to restart Quagga to make all the
necessary changes.

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