Bug 1416013 (CVE-2017-5495)

Summary:	CVE-2017-5495 quagga: Telnet interface input buffer allocates unbounded amounts of memory
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	balajig81, mruprich, msekleta
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	quagga-0.99.15-14.el6	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A denial of service flaw affecting various daemons in Quagga was found. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the various Quagga daemons, which expose their telnet interface, to crash.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 03:06:07 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1416017, 1416326
Bug Blocks:	1386080, 1416016

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-01-24 11:09:09 UTC

A vulnerability was found in quagga. Telnet interface input buffer allocates unbounded amounts of memory which leads to Denial-of-service.

References:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8783
http://mirror.easyname.at/nongnu//quagga/quagga-1.1.1.changelog.txt

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-01-24 11:11:18 UTC

Created quagga tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1416017]

Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-01-25 08:54:04 UTC

External References:

https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2017-January/016586.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-21 11:57:29 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:0794 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0794.html