CVE-2023-38406

medium
Published 2024-01-25 · Modified 2024-01-25
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

Moderate: frr security update

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-0477.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2024-0130.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2248528

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2248526

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2248208

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2248207

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: alma — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0130

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-38406.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-38406

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:0130

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: redhat — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0477

Mitigation details

Source: Red Hat Errata — Red Hat Inc. · View original ↗ · Open-Errata-API

Description ffr: Flowspec overflow in bgpd/bgp_flowspec.c Red Hat statement Red Hat OpenStack Platform does not ship its own version of the frr package, instead using the version from the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RHOSP is marked as Not Affected as no changes need to be made by the OpenStack engineering team. System administrators of OpenStack deployments should apply updates once…

Description

ffr: Flowspec overflow in bgpd/bgp_flowspec.c

Red Hat statement

Red Hat OpenStack Platform does not ship its own version of the frr package, instead using the version from the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RHOSP is marked as Not Affected as no changes need to be made by the OpenStack engineering team. System administrators of OpenStack deployments should apply updates once available in RHEL.

CVSS v3: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Errata / fixed releases

ProductPackageAdvisoryReleased
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8frr-0:7.5.1-13.el8_9.3RHSA-2024:01302024-01-10T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Supportfrr-0:7.5-11.el8_6.7RHSA-2024:11132024-03-05T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Supportfrr-0:7.5.1-7.el8_8.5RHSA-2024:05742024-01-30T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9frr-0:8.3.1-11.el9_3.2RHSA-2024:04772024-01-25T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Supportfrr-0:8.0-5.el9_0.3RHSA-2024:11522024-03-05T00:00:00Z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Supportfrr-0:8.3.1-5.el9_2.4RHSA-2024:10932024-03-05T00:00:00Z

Apply commands

bash fix
Apply RHSA-2024:0130 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
yum update -y frr
# or:
dnf upgrade -y frr

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
redhat rhel9fixed
rockylinux rocky8fixed
debian debianbookwormfixed8.4.4-1.1~deb12u1
debian debianbullseyefixed7.5.1-1.1+deb11u3
debian debianforkyfixed8.4.4-1
debian debiansidfixed8.4.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed8.4.4-1
suse slesaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.