Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0086: frr (ALINUX3-SA-2024:0086)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 235947

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2024:0086 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2023-38406:
bgpd/bgp_flowspec.c in FRRouting (FRR) before 8.4.3 mishandles an nlri length of zero, aka a flowspec overflow.

CVE-2023-38407:
bgpd/bgp_label.c in FRRouting (FRR) before 8.5 attempts to read beyond the end of the stream during labeled unicast parsing.

CVE-2023-47234:
An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR through 9.0.1. A crash can occur when processing a crafted BGP UPDATE message with a MP_UNREACH_NLRI attribute and additional NLRI data (that lacks mandatory path attributes).

CVE-2023-47235:
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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 235947

File Name: alinux3_sa_2024-0086.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-38406

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:frr-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:frr, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:frr-selinux, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:frr-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:frr-doc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Alibaba/release, Host/Alibaba/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-38406, CVE-2023-38407, CVE-2023-47234, CVE-2023-47235

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