Name: CVE-2018-12066: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2018-06-08T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2018-12066, CWE-400, CVSS 5.5, EPSS 0.00035

BIRD Internet Routing Daemon before 1.6.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and daemon crash) via BGP mask expressions in birdc.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade bird	Jul 30, 2024	Jun 8, 2018
Vmware Photon_os	—	Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version.	Jul 2, 2025	Jun 8, 2018

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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