USN-3471-1

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    USN-3471-1

    Published: 31 Oct 2017Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: quagga vulnerabilities

    Details: Andreas Jaggi discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled certain BGP UPDATE messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Quagga to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-16227) Quentin Young discovered that Quagga incorrectly handled memory in the telnet vty CLI. An attacker able to connect to the telnet interface could possibly use this issue to cause Quagga to consume memory, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-5495)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3471-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-5495, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16227

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: quagga

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.4

    Affected versions

    0.99.22.1-2
    0.99.22.4-1
    0.99.22.4-2
    0.99.22.4-3
    0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1
    0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.1
    0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.2
    0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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