CVE-2016-1245
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Memory corruption
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546Patch
- http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0794.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386109Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-48
- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3695Advisory