Vigil@nce - BIRD: buffer overflow via BGP packets
November 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights, denial of service on server, denial of service on
service.
Provenance: internet server.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 20/09/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow in BIRD via RFC 8203
packets, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to
run code.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/BIRD-buffer-overflow-via-BGP-packets-30370