frr — security advisory
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.
- Products
- frr
- Affected versions
- 8.4.2-1, 8.4.4-1, 8.4.4-1.1~deb12u1
- Fixed versions
- 8.4.4-1.1~deb12u2, 9.1-0.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-3748
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3748
frr
Fixed versions: 8.4.4-1.1~deb12u2
frr
Fixed versions: 9.1-0.1
frr
Fixed versions: 9.1-0.1
Complete source record
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