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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-662-1 quagga security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3695-1 quagga security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-2344 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3110-1 Quagga vulnerability
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History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.02348}

epss

{'score': 0.0119}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T22:48:13.613Z

Reserved: 2015-12-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-1245

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-02-22T23:59:00.143

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-1245

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-10-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2016-1245 - Bugzilla

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