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Fedora update for Quagga
Secunia Advisory: SA10402
Release Date: 2003-12-11
Popularity: 6,085 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Fedora Core 1

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CVE reference:CVE-2003-0858


Description:
Red Hat has issued updated packages for Quagga. These fix a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The problem is that Quagga accepts spoofed messages sent on the kernel netlink interface.

Solution:
Updated packages:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub...s/1/SRPMS/quagga-0.96.4-0.fc1.src.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub...s/1/i386/quagga-0.96.4-0.fc1.i386.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub.../quagga-contrib-0.96.4-0.fc1.i386.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub...86/quagga-devel-0.96.4-0.fc1.i386.rpm
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub...uagga-debuginfo-0.96.4-0.fc1.i386.rpm


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