CVE-2016-1245 (GCVE-0-2016-1245)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-22 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 22:48
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Summary
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.
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No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • stack-based buffer overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Quagga before 1.0.20161017 Affected: Quagga before 1.0.20161017
Date Public ?
2017-02-22 00:00
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