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CVE-2018-5381

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

Published
Last modified
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Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.2.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated
  3. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • Quagga bgpd

    From bpgd · fixed in 1.2.3

References 8

gogs.quagga.net

usn.ubuntu.com

debian.org

savannah.nongnu.org

security.gentoo.org

lists.debian.org

kb.cert.org

cert-portal.siemens.com