CVE-2017-16227
N/A
Published: October 29, 2017 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:09 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxQuagga
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 46%
Description
The aspath_put function in bgpd/bgp_aspath.c in Quagga before 1.2.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session drop) via BGP UPDATE messages, because AS_PATH size calculation for long paths counts certain bytes twice and consequently constructs an invalid message.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/quagga/quagga-1.2.2.changelog.txtVendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4011x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.debian.org/879474x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quagga.git/commit/?id=7a42b78be9a4108d98833069a88e6fddb9285008x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2017-September/033284.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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