Debian DSA-5362-1 : frr - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 171919

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dsa-5362 advisory.

- An out-of-bounds read in the BGP daemon of FRRouting FRR before 8.4 may lead to a segmentation fault and denial of service. This occurs in bgp_capability_msg_parse in bgpd/bgp_packet.c. (CVE-2022-37032)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the frr packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 7.5.1-1.1+deb11u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 171919

File Name: debian_DSA-5362.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/26/2023

Updated: 9/1/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-37032

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:frr-pythontools, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:frr-snmp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:frr, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:frr-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:frr-rpki-rtrlib

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-37032

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