Quagga up to 0.98.4 null pointer dereference

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A vulnerability has been found in Quagga up to 0.98.4 (Network Routing Software) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

The extended-community parser in bgpd in Quagga before 0.99.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a malformed Extended Communities attribute.

The weakness was released 03/21/2011 with Debian as Bug 654603 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2010-1674. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 68242 (Oracle Linux 6 : quagga (ELSA-2011-0406)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165187 (SUSE Security Update for Multiple Packages (SUSE-SR:2011:005)).

Upgrading to version 0.98.5 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (66211), Tenable (68242), SecurityFocus (BID 46942†), OSVDB (71259†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-30713†).

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Class: Null pointer dereference
CWE: CWE-476 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 68242
Nessus Name: Oracle Linux 6 : quagga (ELSA-2011-0406)
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OpenVAS ID: 69333
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 2197-1 (quagga)
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Upgrade: Quagga 0.98.5

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Advisory: Bug 654603
Organization: Debian
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CVE: CVE-2010-1674 (🔍)
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X-Force: 66211
SecurityFocus: 46942 - Quagga BGP Daemon Null Pointer Deference Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 48106
OSVDB: 71259 - Quagga Extended Communities Attribute Handling NULL Dereference Remote DoS
Vulnerability Center: 30713 - Quagga 0.96.2-0.99.17 Remote DoS Vulnerability due to a NULL pointer dereference in the BGP Daemon, Medium

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Created: 03/20/2015 04:16 PM
Updated: 10/21/2021 01:06 PM
Changes: 03/20/2015 04:16 PM (68), 03/20/2017 09:22 AM (10), 10/21/2021 12:51 PM (5), 10/21/2021 12:58 PM (1), 10/21/2021 01:06 PM (1)
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