CVE-2018-5378
HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: February 19, 2018 at 01:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:00 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxUbuntu LinuxQuagga
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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 74%
Description
The Quagga BGP daemon (bgpd) prior to version 1.2.3 does not properly bounds check the data sent with a NOTIFY to a peer, if an attribute length is invalid. Arbitrary data from the bgpd process may be sent over the network to a peer and/or bgpd may crash.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Ubuntu Linux· Canonicalrubygems
95%Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (6)
x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9095Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
Source: [email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/940439x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://gogs.quagga.net/Quagga/quagga/src/master/doc/security/Quagga-2018-0543.txtVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-17Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3573-1/Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4115CVSS
7.1HIGHcertcc
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- LOW
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- LOW
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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