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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3748

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

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-3748

core-osv · Original source

Published 24 Jul 2023, 16:15 UTC

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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