| Name | CVE-2017-5495 |
| Description | All versions of Quagga, 0.93 through 1.1.0, are vulnerable to an unbounded memory allocation in the telnet 'vty' CLI, leading to a Denial-of-Service of Quagga daemons, or even the entire host. When Quagga daemons are configured with their telnet CLI enabled, anyone who can connect to the TCP ports can trigger this vulnerability, prior to authentication. Most distributions restrict the Quagga telnet interface to local access only by default. The Quagga telnet interface 'vty' input buffer grows automatically, without bound, so long as a newline is not entered. This allows an attacker to cause the Quagga daemon to allocate unbounded memory by sending very long strings without a newline. Eventually the daemon is terminated by the system, or the system itself runs out of memory. This is fixed in Quagga 1.1.1 and Free Range Routing (FRR) Protocol Suite 2017-01-10. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 852454 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| quagga (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 0.99.23.1-1+deb8u5 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.1.1-3+deb9u2 | fixed | |
| buster | 1.2.4-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| quagga | source | (unstable) | 1.1.1-1 | 852454 |
[jessie] - quagga <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - quagga <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
http://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8783
http://mirror.easyname.at/nongnu//quagga/quagga-1.1.1.changelog.txt
Fixed by: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quagga.git/commit/?id=b7ceefea77a246fe5c1dcd1b91bf6079d1b97c02
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quagga.git/commit/?id=7d66284a5817a1613b1e4d64a0775ec04fdf8c01