VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0255

medium
Published 2012-04-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The BGP implementation in bgpd in Quagga before 0.99.20.1 does not properly use message buffers for OPEN messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a message associated with a malformed Four-octet AS Number Capability (aka AS4 capability).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
quaggaquagga{"endIncluding":"0.99.20"}
quaggaquagga0.95
quaggaquagga0.96
quaggaquagga0.96.1
quaggaquagga0.96.2
quaggaquagga0.96.3
quaggaquagga0.96.4
quaggaquagga0.96.5
quaggaquagga0.97.0
quaggaquagga0.97.1
quaggaquagga0.97.2
quaggaquagga0.97.3
quaggaquagga0.97.4
quaggaquagga0.97.5
quaggaquagga0.98.0
quaggaquagga0.98.1
quaggaquagga0.98.2
quaggaquagga0.98.3
quaggaquagga0.98.4
quaggaquagga0.98.5
quaggaquagga0.98.6
quaggaquagga0.99.1
quaggaquagga0.99.2
quaggaquagga0.99.3
quaggaquagga0.99.4
quaggaquagga0.99.5
quaggaquagga0.99.6
quaggaquagga0.99.7
quaggaquagga0.99.8
quaggaquagga0.99.9
quaggaquagga0.99.10
quaggaquagga0.99.11
quaggaquagga0.99.12
quaggaquagga0.99.13
quaggaquagga0.99.14
quaggaquagga0.99.15
quaggaquagga0.99.16
quaggaquagga0.99.17
quaggaquagga0.99.18
quaggaquagga0.99.19

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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