CVE-2013-0149
(ospfd): Possibility to use invalid / duplicate LSA information (VU#229804)
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
Review impact separately from score.
Published · August 1, 2013
Updated · November 21, 2025
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.
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.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 4.3AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
CWE not specified