The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2981 advisory.

    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: missing length check in bgp_attr_psid_sub() can lead do DoS (CVE-2023-31490)

    * frr: processes invalid NLRIs if attribute length is zero (CVE-2023-41358)

    * frr: NULL pointer dereference in bgp_nlri_parse_flowspec() in bgpd/bgp_flowspec.c (CVE-2023-41909)

    * frr: mishandled malformed data leading to a crash (CVE-2023-46752)

    * frr: crafted BGP UPDATE message leading to a crash (CVE-2023-46753)

    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 8.10 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

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RHEL 8 : frr (RHSA-2024:2981)

high Nessus Plugin ID 197804

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.0

Version 1.2 Mar 20, 2025, 5:09 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202503201709
Version 1.1 Nov 7, 2024, 8:25 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411072025
Version 1.0 May 23, 2024, 6:06 PM New Plugin Feed: 202405231806