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Debian: CVE-2016-1245: quagga -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2016-1245: quagga -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/18/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/19/2016
Modified
03/02/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-quagga

References

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