ubuntu · CVE-2016-4049

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-05-23 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:02:08 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4049 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (quagga), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial): released 4, ignored 1.

Description:

The bgp_dump_routes_func function in bgpd/bgp_dump.c in Quagga does not perform size checks when dumping data, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via a large BGP packet.

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