Input validation error in frr - CVE-2023-47234
Published: November 7, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU82899
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-47234
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: frrouting.org
Affected software:
frr
frr
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when processing a crafted BGP UPDATE message with a MP_UNREACH_NLRI attribute and additional NLRI data (that lacks mandatory path attributes). A remote attacker can send specially crafted messages to the daemon and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2023-47234
Install updates from vendor's website.