Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1382-1 quagga -- null pointer dereference

Date Reported:

01 Oct 2007

Affected Packages:

quagga

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 442133.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-4826.

More information:

It was discovered that BGP peers can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the BGP daemon if debug logging is enabled, causing the BGP daemon to crash.

For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 0.98.3-7.5.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.5-5etch3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.99.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your quagga packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5.dsc
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga-doc_0.98.3-7.5_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_m68k.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.98.3-7.5_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3.diff.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga-doc_0.99.5-5etch3_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/quagga/quagga_0.99.5-5etch3_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.