UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16159

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-16159
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16159.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16159
Upstream
Withdrawn
2025-07-18T16:45:20Z
Published
2019-09-09T15:15:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T08:23:50.131293Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / bird

Package

Name
bird
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/bird@1.6.8-1?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.6.8-1

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.6.8-1",
            "binary_name": "bird"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.6.8-1",
            "binary_name": "bird-bgp"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.6.8-1",
            "binary_name": "bird-dbgsym"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.6.8-1",
            "binary_name": "bird-doc"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}