ubuntu · CVE-2016-1245

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-10-18 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:53:57 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-1245 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (quagga), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety): released 4, needs-triage 1.

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.

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