CVE-2023-47235 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.8 Published Updated

A remote attacker can cause a denial of service in FRRouting by sending a malformed BGP UPDATE message with an End-of-RIB marker.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2023-47235?

CVE-2023-47235 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 3 Nov 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR through 9.0.1. A crash can occur when a malformed BGP UPDATE message with an EOR is processed, because the presence of EOR does not lead to a treat-as-withdraw outcome.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-47235?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Frrouting Frrouting.

How do I fix CVE-2023-47235?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-47235 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-47235 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as AZL-31785, AZL-34691, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-47235, GHSA-5682-2jc3-w5j4, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-47235.

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