Bug 1416013 (CVE-2017-5495) - CVE-2017-5495 quagga: Telnet interface input buffer allocates unbounded amounts of memory
Summary: CVE-2017-5495 quagga: Telnet interface input buffer allocates unbounded amoun...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-5495
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1416017 1416326
Blocks: 1386080 1416016
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Reported: 2017-01-24 11:09 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:44 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: quagga-0.99.15-14.el6
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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.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:06:07 UTC

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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0794 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: quagga security and bug fix update 2017-03-21 12:50:48 UTC

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
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