CVE-2016-1245

quagga: Buffer Overflow in IPv6 RA handling

Published Feb 22, 2017 CVSS 3.0 · 9.8 Critical EPSS 3.7% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-662-1 quagga security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3695-1 quagga security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-2344 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3110-1 Quagga vulnerability
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.02348}

epss

{'score': 0.0119}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
debian
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 10:48 PM
Reserved
Dec 27, 2015, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 22, 2017, 11:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:41 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Oct 18, 2016, 12:00 AM