ubuntu · CVE-2016-2342

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Priority: high Published: 2016-03-17 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:57:09 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2342 high priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (quagga), 4 status rows across 4 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily): released 3, needed 1.

Description:

The bgp_nlri_parse_vpnv4 function in bgp_mplsvpn.c in the VPNv4 NLRI parser in bgpd in Quagga before 1.0.20160309, when a certain VPNv4 configuration is used, relies on a Labeled-VPN SAFI routes-data length field during a data copy, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted packet.

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