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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2016-1245

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CVE-2016-1245

quagga: Buffer Overflow in IPv6 RA handling

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Oracle (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 7quagga0.99.22.4-1+wheezy3+deb7u1
debian 8quagga0.99.23.1-1+deb8u3
Oracle Linux 6quagga, quagga-contrib, quagga-devel0.99.15-14.el6
Red Hatquagga, quagga-contrib, quagga-develno fix listed
ubuntu 12.04quagga0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.6
ubuntu 14.04quagga0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.3
ubuntu 16.04quagga0.99.24.1-2ubuntu1.2
ubuntu 16.04-ESMquagga0.99.24.1-2ubuntu1.2
ubuntu 16.10quagga1.0.20160315-2ubuntu0.1
Show all 13 entries from 9 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 7quagga0.99.22.4-1+wheezy3+deb7u1
debian 8quagga0.99.23.1-1+deb8u3
Oracle Linux 6quagga0.99.15-14.el6
Oracle Linux 6quagga-contrib0.99.15-14.el6
Oracle Linux 6quagga-devel0.99.15-14.el6
Red Hatquaggano fix listed
Red Hatquagga-contribno fix listed
Red Hatquagga-develno fix listed
ubuntu 12.04quagga0.99.20.1-0ubuntu0.12.04.6
ubuntu 14.04quagga0.99.22.4-3ubuntu1.3
ubuntu 16.04quagga0.99.24.1-2ubuntu1.2
ubuntu 16.04-ESMquagga0.99.24.1-2ubuntu1.2
ubuntu 16.10quagga1.0.20160315-2ubuntu0.1

References

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