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Fedora 44 : bird (2026-c2b9288d46)

high Nessus Plugin ID 333548

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-c2b9288d46 advisory.

 # BIRD 3.3.2 (2026-07-30)

 - BGP: Fix stack buffer overflow in Flowspec NLRI decoder
 - BGP: Minor improvements in Flowspec parsing
 - BGP: Fix minor issues with send hold timer
 - Fix null byte handling in authentication keys
 - Pipe, L3VPN: Fix hostentry stripping
 - Filter: Fix zero arg handling
 - Logging: Fix use-after-free on failed rotation
 - CLI: Fix crashes in show route
 - Allocator: Pre-fill hot pages when entering RCU critical section
 - Fix obstacle cleanup
 - Update bird-users mailing list links

 See also: https://trubka.network.cz/archives/list/bird- [email protected]/thread/XOVK5DHDS4LXJ5HB5PZX7533T7JEZZ4U/

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected bird package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-c2b9288d46

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 333548

File Name: fedora_2026-c2b9288d46.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/9/2026

Updated: 8/9/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:bird

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/31/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/31/2026

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