CVE-2019-16159 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2019-16159 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector	Network
Attack Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	High
CVSSv3 Version	3.1

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1150108 [NEW]

SUSE Security Advisories:

openSUSE-SU-2019:2178-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:43 2023
openSUSE-SU-2019:2180-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:43 2023
openSUSE-SU-2025:15072-1, published Sat May 10 18:49:34 2025

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	`bird >= 1.6.8-bp151.2.3.1` `bird-common >= 1.6.8-bp151.2.3.1` `bird-doc >= 1.6.8-bp151.2.3.1` `bird6 >= 1.6.8-bp151.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-2180
openSUSE Leap 15.1	`bird >= 1.6.8-lp151.2.3.1` `bird-common >= 1.6.8-lp151.2.3.1` `bird-doc >= 1.6.8-lp151.2.3.1` `bird6 >= 1.6.8-lp151.2.3.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-2019-2178
openSUSE Tumbleweed	`bird >= 2.0.8-2.2` `bird-doc >= 2.0.8-2.2` `bird3 >= 3.1.0-1.1` `bird3-doc >= 3.1.0-1.1`	Patchnames: openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-10652 openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-15072

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s)	Source package	State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Package Hub 15 SP1	bird	Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Sep 10 09:29:28 2019
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 16:09:54 2025