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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020-4619-01 Moderate: Frr Security Update

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Calendar Grey November 3, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has released a significant security update for the frr package, tackling serious vulnerabilities that could lead to denial-of-service attacks and potential data exposure.
An update for frr is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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

Summary

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory information leak DoS issue security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux Moderate impact frr update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12831 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: frr-7.0-10.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: frr-7.0-10.el8.aarch64.rpm frr-contrib-7.0-10.el8.aarch64.rpm frr-debuginfo-7.0-10.el8.aarch64.rpm frr-debugsource-7.0-10.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: frr-7.0-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm frr-contrib-7.0-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm frr-debuginfo-7.0-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm frr-debugsource-7.0-10.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: frr-7.0-10.el8.s390x.rpm frr-contrib-7.0-10.el8.s390x.rpm frr-debuginfo-7.0-10.el8.s390x.rpm frr-debugsource-7.0-10.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: frr-7.0-10.el8.x86_64.rpm frr-contrib-7.0-10.el8.x86_64.rpm frr-debuginfo-7.0-10.el8.x86_64.rpm frr-debugsource-7.0-10.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4619-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4619
Issue date: 2020-11-03

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 impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory information leak DoS issue security fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux Moderate impact frr update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1758544 - [frr]IGMPv3 queries may lead to DoS

1776342 - frr has missing dependency on iproute

1819319 - frr fails to start start if the initscripts package is missing

1830805 - CVE-2020-12831 frr: default permission issue eases information leaks

1867793 - FRR does not conform to the source port range specified in RFC5881

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