NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package frr-contrib (opens in a new tab)
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- published12 Sept 2023
- disclosed5 Sept 2023
Introduced: 5 Sep 2023
CVE-2023-41909 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream frr-contrib package and not the frr-contrib package as distributed by RHEL.
An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR through 9.0. bgp_nlri_parse_flowspec in bgpd/bgp_flowspec.c processes malformed requests with no attributes, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-41909
- https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/pull/13222/commits/cfd04dcb3e689754a72507d086ba3b9709fc5ed8
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00020.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JLG64IF3FU7V76K4TKCCXVNEE6P2VUDO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LMJNX44SMJM25JZO7XWHDQCOB4SNJPIE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WXR6PIVY4SWO7HDT4EY733H4X32SCPM4/