CVE-2018-5379

Publication date 13 February 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The Quagga BGP daemon (bgpd) prior to version 1.2.3 can double-free memory when processing certain forms of UPDATE message, containing cluster-list and/or unknown attributes. A successful attack could cause a denial of service or potentially allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
quagga	17.10 artful	Fixed 1.1.1-3ubuntu0.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 0.99.24.1-2ubuntu1.4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.5

Notes

mdeslaur

this is Quagga-2018-1114

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3573-1
Quagga vulnerabilities
16 February 2018