Moderate: frr security and bug fix update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-12831   CVE-2020-12831   CVE-2020-12831  

Synopsis

Moderate: frr security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for frr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

FRRouting is free software that manages TCP/IP based routing protocols. It supports BGP4, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, ISIS, RIP, RIPng, PIM, NHRP, PBR, EIGRP and BFD.

Security Fix(es):

  • frr: default permission issue eases information leaks (CVE-2020-12831)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1758544 - [frr]IGMPv3 queries may lead to DoS
  • BZ - 1776342 - frr has missing dependency on iproute
  • BZ - 1819319 - frr fails to start start if the initscripts package is missing
  • BZ - 1830805 - CVE-2020-12831 frr: default permission issue eases information leaks
  • BZ - 1867793 - FRR does not conform to the source port range specified in RFC5881

CVEs

References