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CVE-2016-1245

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-02-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

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 products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• quagga: through 1.0.20160315

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0794.html
• http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386109
• https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-48
• https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3695
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0794.html
• http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/31952
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93775
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386109
• https://github.com/Quagga/quagga/commit/cfb1fae25f8c092e0d17073eaf7bd428ce1cd546

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