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CVE-2016-1245

Publication date 18 October 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
quagga 16.10 yakkety
Fixed 1.0.20160315-2ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 0.99.24.1-2ubuntu1.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.3
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.6

Patch details

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Package Patch details
quagga

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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