Out-of-Bounds Affecting quagga-contrib package, versions <0:0.99.15-14.el6


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.34% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE6-QUAGGACONTRIB-2512800
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed22 Feb 2017

Introduced: 22 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-1245  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:6 quagga-contrib to version 0:0.99.15-14.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2017-0794.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream quagga-contrib package and not the quagga-contrib package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.