Out-of-bounds Read in Frrouting
CVE-2022-40318
An issue was discovered in bgpd in FRRouting (FRR) through 8.4. By crafting a BGP OPEN message with an option of type 0xff (Extended Length from RFC 9072), attackers may cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon restart, or out-of-bounds read). This is possible because of inconsistent boundary checks that do not account for reading 3 bytes (instead of 2) in this 0xff case. NOTE: this behavior occurs in bgp_open_option_parse in the bgp_open.c file, a different location (with a different attack vector) relative to CVE-2022-40302.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.020 (78.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Frrouting
- Debian Debian_linux — versions 10.0, 11.0, 12.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2022-40318?
- CVE-2022-40318 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Frrouting, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-05-03.
- How severe is CVE-2022-40318?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.