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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2016-1245) ELSA-2017-0794: quagga security and bug fix update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2016-1245) ELSA-2017-0794: quagga security and bug fix 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
03/28/2017
Modified
05/03/2019

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)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-quagga
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-quagga-contrib
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-quagga-devel

References

  • ELSA-2017-0794
  • RHSA-2017:0794
  • 93775
  • GLSA-201701-48
  • DLA-662-1
  • DSA-3695
  • CVE-2016-1245
  • USN-3110-1
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