MediumFix available
bird — security advisory
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.
- Products
- bird
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.6.4-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-12066
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12066
bird
Fixed versions: 1.6.4-1
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12066",
"method": "structured",
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"kind": "advisory",
"title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12066",
"summary": "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.",
"evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12066",
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}
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}
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"affected": [
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"events": [
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},
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"purl": "pkg:deb/debian/bird?arch=source&distro=bookworm",
"ecosystem": "Debian:12"
},
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"source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12066.json"
},
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}
}
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"modified": "2026-10-23T18:03:53.637251069Z",
"provider": "osv",
"upstream": [
"CVE-2018-12066"
],
"references": [
"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-12066"
]
},
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"security_relevant": true,
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},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 422523,
"published_at": "2018-06-08T14:29:00.41+00:00"
}