CVE-2018-5379
A successful attack could cause a denial of service or potentially allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 38.5%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 38.45% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-415
- Affected
- quagga/quagga · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux · redhat/enterprise linux server · redhat/enterprise linux server aus · redhat/enterprise linux server eus · redhat/enterprise linux server tus · redhat/enterprise linux workstation · siemens/ruggedcom rox ii firmware
- Source
- cret@cert.org
EPSS moved from 37.1% on 21 September 2026 to 38.5% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9095Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/940439Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103105Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0377Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-451142.pdfThird Party Advisory
- https://gogs.quagga.net/Quagga/quagga/src/master/doc/security/Quagga-2018-1114.txtVendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00021.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-17Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3573-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4115Third Party Advisory
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9095Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/940439Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103105Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0377Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-451142.pdfThird Party Advisory
- https://gogs.quagga.net/Quagga/quagga/src/master/doc/security/Quagga-2018-1114.txtVendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/02/msg00021.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-17Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3573-1/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4115Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.