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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2018-12066)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

An update of the calico package has been released.

Updating bird to 1.6.4 release which includes fix for CVE-2018-12066 Running bird in foreground Bird is running under bird user and group rather than root

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256451	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-12066	Nessus	Misc.	medium
233761	Photon OS 5.0: Calico PHSA-2024-5.0-0428	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
120608	Fedora 28 : bird (2018-8f0d2429d3)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
120498	Fedora 29 : bird (2018-6aada550ca)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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