CVE-2016-1245

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-1245
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-02-22 23:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-01-05 02:30:00 UTC
DescriptionIt 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Quagga Quagga All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
1386109 – (CVE-2016-1245) CVE-2016-1245 quagga: Buffer Overflow in IPv6 RA handling CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Mailing List Archive: Quagga CVE Released: CVE-2016-1245 (Fix in latest 1.0.20161017 release) CONFIRM www.gossamer-threads.com Mailing List, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
Quagga: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201701-48) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3695-1 quagga DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
zebra: stack overrun in IPv6 RA receive code (CVE-2016-1245) · Quagga/quagga@cfb1fae · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Quagga CVE-2016-1245 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710430 Gentoo Linux Quagga Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201701-48)
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