VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0806

medium
Published 2012-01-27 · 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
6.5

Description

Buffer overflow in Bip 0.8.8 and earlier might allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a series of TCP connections that triggers use of many open file descriptors.

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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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.8.8-2
sid Fixed 0.8.8-2
forky Fixed 0.8.8-2
bullseye Fixed 0.8.8-2
bookworm Fixed 0.8.8-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
duckcorpbip{"endIncluding":"0.8.8"}
duckcorpbip0.7.0
duckcorpbip0.7.1
duckcorpbip0.7.2
duckcorpbip0.7.3
duckcorpbip0.7.4
duckcorpbip0.7.5
duckcorpbip0.8.0
duckcorpbip0.8.1
duckcorpbip0.8.2
duckcorpbip0.8.3
duckcorpbip0.8.4
duckcorpbip0.8.5
duckcorpbip0.8.6
duckcorpbip0.8.7

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.