RHSA-2023:2801 - Security Advisory

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: out-of-bounds read in the BGP daemon may lead to information disclosure or denial of service (CVE-2022-37032)

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 8.8 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 x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle Long Life 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 8.10 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle Long Life 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle Long Life 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle Long Life 8.8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1939516 - frr service cannot reload itself, due to executing in the wrong SELinux context
• BZ - 1948422 - BGP incorrectly withdraws routes on graceful restart capable routers
• BZ - 2127140 - Frr is unable to push routes to the system routing table [rhel-8.8.0]
• BZ - 2128713 - CVE-2022-37032 frr: out-of-bounds read in the BGP daemon may lead to information disclosure or denial of service
• BZ - 2149171 - RHEL 8.7 kickstart installation fails when frr package is included in the %packages section.

CVEs

• CVE-2022-37032

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.8_release_notes/index