CVE-2012-1820 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Quagga 0.99.20.1 and earlier, specifically within the bgpd component. An attacker can exploit this by sending a malformed Outbound Route Filtering (ORF) capability TLV in an OPEN message during a BGP peering relationship, causing an assertion failure and daemon exit. This vulnerability has a low severity score (CVSS 2.9) due to its adjacent network attack vector and medium attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.99.20.1CPE 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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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