Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6434-01 - An update for frr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Issues addressed include denial of service and out of bounds read vulnerabilities.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: frr security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:6434-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6434
Issue date: 2023-11-07
Revision: 01
CVE Names: CVE-2022-36440
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Summary:
An update for frr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description:
FRRouting is free software that manages TCP/IP based routing protocols. It supports BGP4, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, ISIS, RIP, RIPng, PIM, NHRP, PBR, EIGRP and BFD.
Security Fix(es):
* frr: Reachable assertion in peek_for_as4_capability function (CVE-2022-36440)
* frr: denial of service by crafting a BGP OPEN message with an option of type 0xff (CVE-2022-40302)
* frr: denial of service by crafting a BGP OPEN message with an option of type in bgp_open_option_parse in the bgp_open.c 0xff (CVE-2022-40318)
* frr: out-of-bounds read exists in the BGP daemon of FRRouting (CVE-2022-43681)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Solution:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
CVEs:
CVE-2022-36440
References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.3_release_notes/index