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<glsa id="200705-05">
  <title>Quagga: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A vulnerability has been discovered in Quagga allowing for a Denial of
    Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">quagga</product>
  <announced>2007-05-02</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-05-02</revised>
  <bug>174206</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/quagga" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.98.6-r2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.98.6-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Quagga is a free routing daemon, supporting RIP, OSPF and BGP
    protocols.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The Quagga development team reported a vulnerability in the BGP routing
    deamon when processing NLRI attributes inside UPDATE messages.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A malicious peer inside a BGP area could send a specially crafted
    packet to a Quagga instance, possibly resulting in a crash of the
    Quagga daemon.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Quagga users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/quagga-0.98.6-r2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1995">CVE-2007-1995</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-04-23T20:01:28Z">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-04-25T21:27:10Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-04-30T08:45:01Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>
