Buffer overflow in the OSPFv2 implementation in ospfd in Quagga before 0.99.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…

Description

Buffer overflow in the OSPFv2 implementation in ospfd in Quagga before 0.99.20.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a Link State Update (aka LS Update) packet containing a network-LSA link-state advertisement for which the data-structure length is smaller than the value in the Length header field.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.3% · top 29% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• RHSA-2012:1259 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• FEDORA-2012-5411 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• DSA-2459 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• VU#551715 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
• 48949 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• RHSA-2012:1258 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• FEDORA-2012-5436 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2012-5352 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 18:16 UTC.