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(ospfd): Possibility to use invalid / duplicate LSA information (VU#229804)

Published Aug 3, 2013

Description

The OSPF implementation in Cisco IOS 12.0 through 12.4 and 15.0 through 15.3, IOS-XE 2.x through 3.9.xS, ASA and PIX 7.x through 9.1, FWSM, NX-OS, and StarOS before 14.0.50488 does not properly validate Link State Advertisement (LSA) type 1 packets before performing operations on the LSA database, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (routing disruption) or obtain sensitive packet information via a (1) unicast or (2) multicast packet, aka Bug IDs CSCug34485, CSCug34469, CSCug39762, CSCug63304, and CSCug39795.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of quagga as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, since the OSPF protocol implementation in Quagga performs LSA id lookup based on two identifiers - (Router-ID, LS-ID) pair.

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Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (6)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner certcc
Published Aug 3, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Dec 6, 2012
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Aug 1, 2013