CVE-2018-12066 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can crash the BIRD routing daemon via crafted BGP mask expressions, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2018-12066?
CVE-2018-12066 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 8 Jun 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
BIRD Internet Routing Daemon before 1.6.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (stack consumption and daemon crash) via BGP mask expressions in birdc.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-12066?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Bird Project Bird.
How do I fix CVE-2018-12066?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2018-12066 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-12066 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12066, GHSA-6f55-8mp8-93rv, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-12066.