CVE-2018-5380 Memory corruption in bgpd

What is CVE-2018-5380?

CVE-2018-5380 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 19 Feb 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Quagga BGP daemon (bgpd) prior to version 1.2.3 can overrun internal BGP code-to-string conversion tables used for debug by 1 pointer value, based on input.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-5380?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Quagga Quagga, Siemens Ruggedcom Rox Ii Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2018-5380?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-5380 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-5380 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as CLSA-2026-1778881024, CLSA-2026-1779131341, CVE-2018-1000066, GHSA-265f-c4jh-jcfq, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-5380.