VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0249

low
Published 2012-04-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
3.3

Description

Buffer overflow in the ospf_ls_upd_list_lsa function in ospf_packet.c in the OSPFv2 implementation in ospfd in Quagga before 0.99.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a Link State Update (aka LS Update) packet that is smaller than the length specified in its header.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
quaggaquagga{"endIncluding":"0.99.20"}
quaggaquagga0.95
quaggaquagga0.96
quaggaquagga0.96.1
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quaggaquagga0.96.3
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quaggaquagga0.96.5
quaggaquagga0.97.0
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quaggaquagga0.97.5
quaggaquagga0.98.0
quaggaquagga0.98.1
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quaggaquagga0.98.3
quaggaquagga0.98.4
quaggaquagga0.98.5
quaggaquagga0.98.6
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quaggaquagga0.99.2
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quaggaquagga0.99.17
quaggaquagga0.99.18
quaggaquagga0.99.19

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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