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Debian: DSA 1379-1 Critical: Quagga BGP Daemon NULL Pointer Crash

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2007
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The Debian Security Advisory DSA 1379-1 details a remedy for a denial of service vulnerability found in the BGP daemon of quagga, stemming from an improper pointer dereference.
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.
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Summary


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.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 2118348 68be5e911e4d604c0f5959338263356e
Size/MD5 checksum: 43910 8bfd06c851172358137d7b67d5f90490
Size/MD5 checksum: 1017 69dc4e5de4de00ec723ecaad6f285af8

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 488996 4f...

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