CVE-2010-2949

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-09-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

bgpd in Quagga before 0.99.17 does not properly parse AS paths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an unknown AS type in an AS path attribute in a BGP UPDATE message.

Affected products

quagga: through 0.99.16; 0.95, 0.96, 0.96.1, 0.96.2, 0.96.3, 0.96.4 (+29)

References

http://code.quagga.net/?p=quagga.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=cddb8112b80fa9867156c637d63e6e79eeac67bb
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-12/msg00009.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/41038
http://secunia.com/advisories/41238
http://secunia.com/advisories/42397
http://secunia.com/advisories/42446
http://secunia.com/advisories/42498
http://secunia.com/advisories/48106
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201202-02.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2104
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:174

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