# CVE-2023-41909: An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR through 9.0.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-09-05 · Updated: 2024-08-02

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in FRRouting FRR through 9.0. bgp_nlri_parse_flowspec in bgpd/bgp_flowspec.c processes malformed requests with no attributes, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/pull/13222/commits/cfd04dcb3e689754a72507d086ba3b9709fc5ed8
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00020.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LMJNX44SMJM25JZO7XWHDQCOB4SNJPIE/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JLG64IF3FU7V76K4TKCCXVNEE6P2VUDO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WXR6PIVY4SWO7HDT4EY733H4X32SCPM4/

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