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CVE-2012-0250

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0250 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the OSPFv2 implementation of Quagga before version 0.99.20.1. This flaw allows remote attackers on the same network segment to trigger a denial of service by sending a malformed Link State Update packet with an inconsistent length field in a network-LSA. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.3, indicating a low severity with an adjacent network attack vector and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.99.20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:0.99.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:0.99.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:0.99.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.99.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:quagga:quagga:0.99.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
6.5
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0132 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 94 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: quagga-0:0.98.6-7.el5_8.1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: quagga-0:0.99.15-7.el6_3.2
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0250Low

(ospfd): Crash by processing LS-Update OSPF packet due improper length check of the Network-LSA structures

Mar 28, 2012

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078794.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078910.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2012-April/078926.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1258.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1259.html
secunia.com / advisories/48949
debian.org / security/2012/dsa-2459
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/551715
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