CVE-2012-0255 Information

Description

The BGP implementation in bgpd in Quagga before 0.99.20.1 does not properly use message buffers for OPEN messages which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a message associated with a malformed Four-octet AS Number Capability (aka AS4 capability).

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078794.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078910.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078926.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1259.html http://secunia.com/advisories/48949 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2459 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/551715