vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-1245: Quagga: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 22, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

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

gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-quagga
Title
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