Bug 738396 (CVE-2011-3325) - CVE-2011-3325 Quagga (ospfd): Denial of service by decoding too short Hello packet or Hello packet with invalid OSPFv2 header type
Summary: CVE-2011-3325 Quagga (ospfd): Denial of service by decoding too short Hello p...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-3325
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 741343 845163 845526 845528 845529
Blocks: 738408
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-09-14 17:30 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2023-05-13 01:21 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: quagga 0.99.19
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-09-13 16:45:12 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Upstream CVE-2011-3325 patch #1 for Quagga-master branch (1.30 KB, patch)
2011-09-14 17:33 UTC, Jan Lieskovsky
no flags Details | Diff
Upstream CVE-2011-3325 patch #2 for Quagga-master branch (2.34 KB, patch)
2011-09-14 17:35 UTC, Jan Lieskovsky
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1258 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: quagga security update 2012-09-13 00:02:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1259 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: quagga security update 2012-09-13 00:00:43 UTC

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-14 17:30:09 UTC
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the ospfd daemon of the Quagga routing suire processes malformed Hello packets (not complete Hello packets of Hello packets with invalid OSPFv2 header type). A configured OSPF peer, could use this flaw to cause the master OSPF daemon (ospfd) to crash.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-14 17:31:21 UTC
This issue affects the versions of the quagga package, as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.

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This issue affects the versions of the quagga package, as shipped with Fedora
release of 14 and 15.

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-14 17:33:07 UTC
Created attachment 523210 [details]
Upstream CVE-2011-3325 patch #1 for Quagga-master branch

Comment 4 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-14 17:35:09 UTC
Created attachment 523212 [details]
Upstream CVE-2011-3325 patch #2 for Quagga-master branch

Comment 6 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-26 15:59:04 UTC
Public now via:
[1] https://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2011/vulnerability539178.html

Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-26 16:07:06 UTC
Created quagga tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 741343]

Comment 8 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-09-29 14:42:57 UTC
It was found that original upstream patch for CVE-2011-3325 part 2 (ospf pkt type segv):
[1] http://code.quagga.net/?p=quagga.git;a=commit;h=717750433839762d23a5f8d88fe0b4d57c8d490a

introduced an regression, which has been corrected in Quagga-v0.99.20 release, via the following commit:
[2] http://code.quagga.net/?p=quagga.git;a=commitdiff;h=3aad46bdaa0a2700e43252904b9481750c8cb45d

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2011-10-18 22:15:53 UTC
quagga-0.99.20-2.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2011-10-18 22:20:04 UTC
quagga-0.99.20-2.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2011-10-19 04:39:47 UTC
quagga-0.99.20-2.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2012-09-12 20:05:39 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1259 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1259.html

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2012-09-12 20:06:20 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:1258 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1258.html

Comment 17 Murray McAllister 2012-09-13 02:52:20 UTC
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank CERT-FI for reporting this issue. CERT-FI acknowledges Riku Hietamäki, Tuomo Untinen and Jukka Taimisto of the Codenomicon CROSS project as the original reporters.


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