A denial of service flaw was found in the way ospfd daemon of the Quagga routing suite processed Link State Update Link-State-Advertisements (LSAs) of type, which was not known to Quagga. A configured OSPF peer could use this flaw to cause the master OSPF daemon (ospfd) to crash.
This issue affects the versions of the quagga package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6. -- This issue affects the versions of the quagga package, as shipped with Fedora release of 14 and 15.
Created attachment 523213 [details] Upstream CVE-2011-3326 patch for Quagga-master branch
Public now via: [1] https://www.cert.fi/en/reports/2011/vulnerability539178.html
Created quagga tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 741343]
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.
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.
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.
Created attachment 603051 [details] Improved upstream patch
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
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
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.