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CVE-2012-0249

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-04-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the ospf_ls_upd_list_lsa function in ospf_packet.c in the OSPFv2 implementation in ospfd in Quagga before 0.99.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via a Link State Update (aka LS Update) packet that is smaller than the length specified in its header.

Affected products

• quagga: through 0.99.20; 0.95, 0.96, 0.96.1, 0.96.2, 0.96.3, 0.96.4 (+33)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078794.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078910.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078926.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1258.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1259.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48949
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2459
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/551715
• https://bugzilla.quagga.net/show_bug.cgi?id=705
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078794.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078910.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078926.html

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