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CVE-2023-3748 — A flaw was found in FRRouting when parsing certain babeld unicast hello messages

A flaw was found in FRRouting when parsing certain babeld unicast hello messages that are intended to be ignored. This issue may allow an attacker to send specially crafted hello messages with the unicast flag set, the interval field set to 0, or any TLV that contains a sub-TLV w

CVSS
3.5 LOW
EPSS
7.00% (top 79.10%)
CWE
CWE-835
Published
2023-07-24T15:19:20.511Z
Last modified
2024-09-27T13:44:27.663Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

01What is this vulnerability?

A flaw was found in FRRouting when parsing certain babeld unicast hello messages that are intended to be ignored. This issue may allow an attacker to send specially crafted hello messages with the unicast flag set, the interval field set to 0, or any TLV that contains a sub-TLV with the Mandatory flag set to enter an infinite loop and cause a denial of service.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / frr8.5
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9unspecified
FedoraFedoraunspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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