CVE-2009-1572

Published May 6, 2009

Last updated a month ago

Overview

Description
The BGP daemon (bgpd) in Quagga 0.99.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an AS path containing ASN elements whose string representation is longer than expected, which triggers an assert error.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Deferred

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Vendor comments

  • Red HatNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of zebra as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, and the versions of quagga as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, or 5.

Configurations

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.