National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0250

Overview

Buffer overflow in the OSPFv2 implementation in ospfd in Quagga before 0.99.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a Link State Update (aka LS Update) packet containing a network-LSA link-state advertisement for which the data-structure length is smaller than the value in the Length header field.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#551715

Name: VU#551715

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/551715

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 48949

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/48949

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1259

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1259.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1258

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1258.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-5436

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078926.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-5411

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078910.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2012-5352

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078794.html