[Secure-testing-team] Bug#819179: quagga: CVE-2016-2342

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: quagga
Version: 0.99.22.4-1
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream patch fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for quagga.

CVE-2016-2342[0]:
| The bgp_nlri_parse_vpnv4 function in bgp_mplsvpn.c in the VPNv4 NLRI
| parser in bgpd in Quagga before 1.0.20160309, when a certain VPNv4
| configuration is used, relies on a Labeled-VPN SAFI routes-data length
| field during a data copy, which allows remote attackers to execute
| arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer
| overflow) via a crafted packet.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2342
[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quagga.git/commit/?id=a3bc7e9400b214a0f078fdb19596ba54214a1442

Regards,
Salvatore