Information Exposure Affecting frrouting/frr package, versions [,2.0.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FRROUTINGFRR-2365063
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed8 Nov 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-15865  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade frrouting/frr to version 2.0.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure bgpd in FRRouting (FRR) before 2.0.2 and 3.x before 3.0.2, as used in Cumulus Linux before 3.4.3 and other products, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a malformed BGP UPDATE packet from a connected peer, which triggers transmission of up to a few thousand unintended bytes because of a mishandled attribute length, aka RN-690 (CM-18492).

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