Bug 1542992 (CVE-2018-5381) - CVE-2018-5381 quagga: Infinite loop issue triggered by invalid OPEN message allows denial-of-service
Summary: CVE-2018-5381 quagga: Infinite loop issue triggered by invalid OPEN message a...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-5381
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1546003 1546004
Blocks: 1543001
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Reported: 2018-02-07 14:18 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-03-11 17:08 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: quagga 1.2.3
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An infinite loop vulnerability was discovered in Quagga. A BGP peer could send specially crafted packets that would cause the daemon to enter an infinite loop, denying service and consuming CPU until it is restarted.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:39:29 UTC
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Upstream patch (1.19 KB, patch)
2018-02-07 14:22 UTC, Adam Mariš 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Adam Mariš 2018-02-07 14:18:34 UTC 
The Quagga BGP daemon, bgpd, can enter an infinite loop if sent an invalid
OPEN message by a configured peer.

This problem is triggerable by packets from a configured peer.

When triggered, the bgpd daemon enters an infinite loop and cease to respond
to any other events.  BGP sessions will drop and not be reestablished.  The
CLI interface will be unresponsive.  The bgpd daemon will stay in this state
until it is restarted.

Affects versions of quagga since 0.99.9

If "override-capability" neighbour option is set, all versions are affected.
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2018-02-07 14:18:38 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Quagga project
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2018-02-07 14:22:46 UTC 
Created attachment 1392683 [details]
Upstream patch
Comment 4 Doran Moppert 2018-02-13 04:15:30 UTC 
External References:

https://www.quagga.net/security/Quagga-2018-1975.txt
Comment 5 Doran Moppert 2018-02-16 04:37:17 UTC 
Created quagga tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1546004]
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