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HistoryNov 15, 2023 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : FRR vulnerabilities (USN-6481-1)

2023-11-1500:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
www.tenable.com
5
ubuntu 22.04 lts
ubuntu 23.04
ubuntu 23.10
frrouting
vulnerabilities
usn-6481-1
crash
bgp update message
cve-2023-46752
cve-2023-46753
nessus scanner

5.9 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

17.0%

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6481-1 advisory.

  • An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR through 9.0.1. It mishandles malformed MP_REACH_NLRI data, leading to a crash. (CVE-2023-46752)

  • An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR through 9.0.1. A crash can occur for a crafted BGP UPDATE message without mandatory attributes, e.g., one with only an unknown transit attribute. (CVE-2023-46753)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6481-1. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See
# <https://ubuntu.com/security/notices>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(185780);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/11/15");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2023-46752", "CVE-2023-46753");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"6481-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 : FRR vulnerabilities (USN-6481-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 23.04 / 23.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as
referenced in the USN-6481-1 advisory.

  - An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR through 9.0.1. It mishandles malformed MP_REACH_NLRI data,
    leading to a crash. (CVE-2023-46752)

  - An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR through 9.0.1. A crash can occur for a crafted BGP UPDATE message
    without mandatory attributes, e.g., one with only an unknown transit attribute. (CVE-2023-46753)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6481-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-46753");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/10/26");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/11/15");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/11/15");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:frr");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:frr-pythontools");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:frr-rpki-rtrlib");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:frr-snmp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Ubuntu Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('22.04' >< os_release || '23.04' >< os_release || '23.10' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 22.04 / 23.04 / 23.10', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'frr', 'pkgver': '8.1-1ubuntu1.7'},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'frr-pythontools', 'pkgver': '8.1-1ubuntu1.7'},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'frr-rpki-rtrlib', 'pkgver': '8.1-1ubuntu1.7'},
    {'osver': '22.04', 'pkgname': 'frr-snmp', 'pkgver': '8.1-1ubuntu1.7'},
    {'osver': '23.04', 'pkgname': 'frr', 'pkgver': '8.4.2-1ubuntu1.5'},
    {'osver': '23.04', 'pkgname': 'frr-pythontools', 'pkgver': '8.4.2-1ubuntu1.5'},
    {'osver': '23.04', 'pkgname': 'frr-rpki-rtrlib', 'pkgver': '8.4.2-1ubuntu1.5'},
    {'osver': '23.04', 'pkgname': 'frr-snmp', 'pkgver': '8.4.2-1ubuntu1.5'},
    {'osver': '23.10', 'pkgname': 'frr', 'pkgver': '8.4.4-1.1ubuntu1.1'},
    {'osver': '23.10', 'pkgname': 'frr-pythontools', 'pkgver': '8.4.4-1.1ubuntu1.1'},
    {'osver': '23.10', 'pkgname': 'frr-rpki-rtrlib', 'pkgver': '8.4.4-1.1ubuntu1.1'},
    {'osver': '23.10', 'pkgname': 'frr-snmp', 'pkgver': '8.4.4-1.1ubuntu1.1'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'frr / frr-pythontools / frr-rpki-rtrlib / frr-snmp');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linux22.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts
canonicalubuntu_linux23.04cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.04
canonicalubuntu_linux23.10cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:23.10
canonicalubuntu_linuxfrrp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:frr
canonicalubuntu_linuxfrr-pythontoolsp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:frr-pythontools
canonicalubuntu_linuxfrr-rpki-rtrlibp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:frr-rpki-rtrlib
canonicalubuntu_linuxfrr-snmpp-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:frr-snmp

5.9 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

7.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

17.0%