RHSA-2023:6434 — Security Advisory

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.

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.