Out-of-Bounds Affecting quagga package, versions <0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.3


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.34% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-QUAGGA-319634
  • published22 Feb 2017
  • 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 Ubuntu:14.04 quagga to version 0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream quagga package and not the quagga package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 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.