USN-3110-1: Quagga vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3110-1

25th October, 2016

quagga vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 16.10
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

Quagga could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Software description

• quagga - BGP/OSPF/RIP routing daemon

Details

David Lamparter discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain IPv6
router advertisements. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 16.10:

quagga 1.0.20160315-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

quagga 0.99.24.1-2ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

quagga 0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

quagga 0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.6

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

After a standard system update you need to restart Quagga to make all the
necessary changes.

References

CVE-2016-1245

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://ift.tt/2fbZ383