National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1820

Overview

The bgp_capability_orf function in bgpd in Quagga 0.99.20.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) by leveraging a BGP peering relationship and sending a malformed Outbound Route Filtering (ORF) capability TLV in an OPEN message.

Impact

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#962587

Name: VU#962587

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/962587

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1605-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1605-1

External Source: BID

Name: 53775

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53775

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-2497

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2497

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 50941

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/50941

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1259

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