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High USN-3573-1 3 CVEs

quagga vulnerabilities

Published Feb 16, 2018 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that a double-free vulnerability existed in the
Quagga BGP daemon when processing certain forms of UPDATE message.
A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or
possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-5379)

It was discovered that the Quagga BGP daemon did not properly bounds
check the data sent with a NOTIFY to a peer. An attacker could use this
to expose sensitive information or possibly cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 17.10. (CVE-2018-5378)

It was discovered that a table overrun vulnerability existed in the
Quagga BGP daemon. An attacker in control of a configured peer could
use this to possibly expose sensitive information or possibly cause
a denial of service. (CVE-2018-5380)

It was discovered that the Quagga BGP daemon in some configurations
did not properly handle invalid OPEN messages. An attacker in control
of a configured peer could use this to cause a denial of service
(infinite loop). (CVE-2018-5381)

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS quagga 0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.5
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS quagga 0.99.24.1-2ubuntu1.4

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2018-5379 EPSS 38%

    The Quagga BGP daemon (bgpd) prior to version 1.2.3 can double-free memory when processing certain forms of UPDATE mess…

  • Medium 6.5
    CVE-2018-5381 EPSS 30%

    The Quagga BGP daemon (bgpd) prior to version 1.2.3 has a bug in its parsing of "Capabilities" in BGP OPEN messages, in…

  • Medium 4.3
    CVE-2018-5380 EPSS 15%

    The Quagga BGP daemon (bgpd) prior to version 1.2.3 can overrun internal BGP code-to-string conversion tables used for …

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5378
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5379
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5380
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-5381