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Ubuntu update for quagga


Secunia ID

SA50941

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-1820

Release Date

12 Oct 2012

Criticality

Less Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From local network

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

Description

Ubuntu has issued an update for quagga. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA49401

Solution

-- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.3

-- Ubuntu 11.10 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.11.10.3

-- Ubuntu 11.04 --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.11.04.3

-- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS --
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/quagga/0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.10.04.3

Original Advisory

USN-1605-1:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1605-1/