CVE-2010-2948

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2010-08-19
CWE:
CWE-121
Bugzilla:
626783: CVE-2010-2948 Quagga (bgpd): Stack buffer overflow by processing certain Route-Refresh messages

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Stack-based buffer overflow in the bgp_route_refresh_receive function in bgp_packet.c in bgpd in Quagga before 0.99.17 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed Outbound Route Filtering (ORF) record in a BGP ROUTE-REFRESH (RR) message.

Find out more about CVE-2010-2948 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
due to this product being in Production 3 of its maintenance
life-cycle, where only qualified security errata of important and
critical impact are addressed.

For further information about the Errata Support Policy, visit:
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata

A future update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 may address this flaw.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.4
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (quagga) RHSA-2010:0785 2010-10-20
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (quagga) RHSA-2010:0945 2010-12-06
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (quagga) RHSA-2010:0785 2010-10-20

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 quagga Will not fix

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