Description
The Quagga BGP daemon (bgpd) prior to version 1.2.3 has a bug in its parsing of "Capabilities" in BGP OPEN messages, in the bgp_packet.c:bgp_capability_msg_parse function. The parser can enter an infinite loop on invalid capabilities if a Multi-Protocol capability does not have a recognized AFI/SAFI, causing a denial of service.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Quagga bgpd
bpgd to < 1.2.3affected
References
- https://gogs.quagga.net/Quagga/quagga/src/master/doc/security/Quagga-2018-1975.txt ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3573-1/ ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4115 ↗
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9095 ↗
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-17 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00021.html ↗
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/940439 ↗
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-451142.pdf ↗