9.8
CRITICAL
CVE-2016-1245
Quagga Zebra Daemon IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Stack Buffer Overflow
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.

INFO

Published Date :

Feb. 22, 2017, 11:59 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 2:46 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2016-1245 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Quagga quagga
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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2016-1245 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0794.html
    Added Reference http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386109
    Added Reference https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-48
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3695
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 05, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0794.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 01, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-48 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 02, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3695 No Types Assigned https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3695 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952 No Types Assigned http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952 Mitigation, Third Party Advisory, Mailing List
    Changed Reference Type https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546 No Types Assigned https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546 Third Party Advisory, Patch
    Changed Reference Type http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775 No Types Assigned http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386109 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386109 Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking
    Added CWE CWE-119
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:1.0.20160315:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (and previous)
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Feb. 24, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

1.34 }} -1.22%

score

0.85767

percentile

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