High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 9, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-16159
CVE-2019-16159
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.
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Affected products
5- BIRD/Internet Routing Daemondescription
- Range: 1.6.x through 1.6.7 and 2.x through 2.0.5
- osv-coords3 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/bird3&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/bird&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.1pkg:rpm/suse/bird&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP1
< 3.1.0-1.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.0-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.6.8-lp151.2.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.6.8-bp151.2.3.1
Patches
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References
12- gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/commit/1657c41c96b3c07d9265b07dd4912033ead4124bnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- gitlab.labs.nic.cz/labs/bird/commit/8388f5a7e14108a1458fea35bfbb5a453e2c563cnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- bird.network.cznvdVendor Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00063.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00065.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-September/013718.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-September/013720.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-September/013722.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/34nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4528nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4F23NNAPXX65MGJQBPPTVGRV3T4XCKBV/nvd
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MCVNQJBZYGGNAJNGOFEBE3IAJME2QIZB/nvd
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