Fedora 41: BIRD Critical Memory Access Issue CVE-2025-59688
fedora
October 1, 2025
BIRD 3.1.4 (2025-09-22) BGP: Fixed crash on Notification with a message, CVE-2025-59688 BGP: Fixed invalid memory access in pending TX flush BGP: Fixed a rare bug with listening so...
Summary
BIRD is a dynamic IP routing daemon supporting both, IPv4 and IPv6, Border
Gateway Protocol (BGPv4), Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2, RIPng), Open
Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2, OSPFv3), Babel Routing Protocol (Babel),
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), IPv6 router advertisements, static
routes, inter-table protocol, command-line interface allowing on-line control
and inspection of the status of the daemon, soft reconfiguration as well as a
powerful language for route filtering.
Update Information:
BIRD 3.1.4 (2025-09-22) BGP: Fixed crash on Notification with a message, CVE-2025-59688 BGP: Fixed invalid memory access in pending TX flush BGP: Fixed a rare bug with listening socket delay Pipe: Disabled statisticts for stopping pipe Hash: Read-only assertions ROA Aggregator: Fixed crash on multiwithdraw Protocol: Fixed broken state announcements
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Mon Sep 22 2025 Robert Scheck
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2397496 - bird-3.1.4 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2397496
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-702902f388' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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Name: bird
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 3.1.4
Release: 1.fc41
URL: https://bird.nic.cz/
Summary: BIRD Internet Routing Daemon
Topics Covered
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