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. The BGP daemon's support for RFC 8203 administrative shutdown communication messages included
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.15% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-09-09 14:34Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 01:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-09-09
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5e3106424b4fa876f025ffe140f7b1dfcac008880bd1634c355f3e219c970825
05 Affected products
06 References
- gitlab.labs.nic.czhttps://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/commit/8388f5a7e14108a1458fea35bfbb5a453e2c563c
- gitlab.labs.nic.czhttps://gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/commit/1657c41c96b3c07d9265b07dd4912033ead4124b
- trubka.network.czhttp://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-September/013718.html
- trubka.network.czhttp://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-September/013720.html
- trubka.network.czhttp://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-September/013722.html
- bird.network.czhttp://bird.network.cz
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-ace80f492ehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4F23NNAPXX65MGJQBPPTVGRV3T4XCKBV/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2019-b629e3b97fhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MCVNQJBZYGGNAJNGOFEBE3IAJME2QIZB/
- seclists.org20190920 [SECURITY] [DSA 4528-1] bird security updatehttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/34
- www.debian.orgDSA-4528https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4528
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:2178http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00063.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2019:2180http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00065.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- bird Fixed in 1.6.8-1
- bird2 Fixed in 2.0.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- bird2 Fixed in 2.0.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- bird2 Fixed in 2.0.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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