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CVE-2010-2949

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2949 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in bgpd within Quagga versions prior to 0.99.17. An attacker can crash the daemon by sending a specially crafted BGP UPDATE message containing an unknown AS type in an AS path attribute, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no authentication required, but only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.99.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.95CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:0.95:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.96CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:0.96:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.96.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:0.96.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.96.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:0.96.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0338 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: quagga-0:0.99.15-5.el6_0.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2949Low

(bgpd): DoS (crash) while processing certain BGP update AS path messages

Aug 19, 2010

References

code.quagga.net
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-12/msg00009.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/41038
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/41238
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42397
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42446
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/42498
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/48106
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201202-02.xml
debian.org / security/2010/dsa-2104
mandriva.com / security/advisories
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/08/24/3
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/08/25/4
quagga.net / news2.php
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0945.html
securityfocus.com / bid/42642
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1027-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/2304
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/3097
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/3124
Vendor Advisory