CVE-2018-5378 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting the Quagga BGP daemon (bgpd) prior to version 1.2.3, impacting various Canonical and Debian Linux distributions. This flaw, categorized as a bounds checking error (CWE-119), allows an authenticated attacker to send malformed BGP NOTIFY messages. Successful exploitation could lead to the disclosure of arbitrary data from the bgpd process to a peer and/or a denial-of-service condition due to a crash. While the vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.9, indicating a medium severity, its attack complexity is high, and there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
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