CVE-2023-38407 (GCVE-0-2023-38407)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-06 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:10
VLAI?
Summary
bgpd/bgp_label.c in FRRouting (FRR) before 8.5 attempts to read beyond the end of the stream during labeled unicast parsing.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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