High severity · published Sep 9, 2019
CVE-2019-16159
BIRD Internet Routing Daemon 1.6.x through 1.6.7 and 2.x through 2.0.5 has a stack-based buffer overflow
7.5
CVSS
3.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
BIRD Internet Routing Daemon 1.6.x through 1.6.7 and 2.x through 2.0.5 has a stack-based buffer overflow. The BGP daemon's support for RFC 8203 administrative shutdown communication messages included an incorrect logical expression when checking the validity of an input message. Sending a shutdown communication with a sufficient message length causes a four-byte overflow to occur while processing the message, where two of the overflow bytes are attacker-controlled and two are fixed.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.2% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BS
Backports Sle · Opensuse
15.0 · source: NVD
BI
Bird · Nic
1.6.0 through 1.6.7; 2.0.0 through 2.0.5 · source: NVD
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
29; 30 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16159
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-16159
Vendor Advisory
http://bird.network.cz
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00063.html
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00065.html
Vendor Advisory
http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-September/013718.html
Vendor Advisory
http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-September/013720.html
Vendor Advisory
http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-September/013722.html
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