CVE-2019-16159

moderate-risk
Published 2019-09-09

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.

Do I need to act?

~
5.3% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (5)

Affected Vendors

References (24)

Vendor Advisory http://bird.network.cz
Vendor Advisory http://bird.network.cz
and 4 more references
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 26/34 · High
Exploitability 8/34 · Low
Exposure 12/34 · Low