CVE-2016-1245
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
9.8
Description
It was discovered that the zebra daemon in Quagga before 1.0.20161017 suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when processing IPv6 Neighbor Discovery messages. The root cause was relying on BUFSIZ to be compatible with a message size; however, BUFSIZ is system-dependent.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Debian Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| quagga | quagga | {"endIncluding":"1.0.20160315"} | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1245.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0794.html
- http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386109
- https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-48
- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3695
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.