CVE-2016-1245

N/A
Published: February 22, 2017 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:41 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxQuagga

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≤ 1.0.20160315

References (7)

x_refsource_CONFIRMMailing ListMitigationThird Party Advisory
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386109
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-48
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3695

CVSS

Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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