CVE-2016-1245
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: security@debian.org — https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546
Vendor advisory: security@debian.org — http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1245.html
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| quagga | quagga | {"endIncluding":"1.0.20160315"} | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-1245.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0794.html
- http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386109
- https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-48
- https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3695
CWEs
CWE-119
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.