CVE-2009-1572
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.035 · 89 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The BGP daemon (bgpd) in Quagga 0.99.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an AS path containing ASN elements whose string representation is longer than expected, which triggers an assert error.
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affected products (32)
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references (38)
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- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526311enisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-07/msg00002.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://marc.info/?l=quagga-dev&m=123364779626078&w=2enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34999enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35061enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35203enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35685enisa_euvd
- http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.quagga.devel/6513enisa_euvd
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