CVE-2016-1245

9.8 CRITICAL
Published: February 22, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026
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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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952
Source: security@debian.org
Mailing List Mitigation Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775
Source: security@debian.org
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386109
Source: security@debian.org
Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546
Source: security@debian.org
Patch Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3695
Source: security@debian.org
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0794.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Mitigation Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386109
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-48
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3695
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory

14 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
9.8 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
3.7%
88th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

debian quagga