CVE-2017-3224

NameCVE-2017-3224
DescriptionOpen Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol implementations may improperly determine Link State Advertisement (LSA) recency for LSAs with MaxSequenceNumber. According to RFC 2328 section 13.1, for two instances of the same LSA, recency is determined by first comparing sequence numbers, then checksums, and finally MaxAge. In a case where the sequence numbers are the same, the LSA with the larger checksum is considered more recent, and will not be flushed from the Link State Database (LSDB). Since the RFC does not explicitly state that the values of links carried by a LSA must be the same when prematurely aging a self-originating LSA with MaxSequenceNumber, it is possible in vulnerable OSPF implementations for an attacker to craft a LSA with MaxSequenceNumber and invalid links that will result in a larger checksum and thus a 'newer' LSA that will not be flushed from the LSDB. Propagation of the crafted LSA can result in the erasure or alteration of the routing tables of routers within the routing domain, creating a denial of service condition or the re-routing of traffic on the network. CVE-2017-3224 has been reserved for Quagga and downstream implementations (SUSE, openSUSE, and Red Hat packages).
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Debian Bugs871617

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
frr (PTS)buster, buster (lts)7.5.1-1.1+deb10u3fixed
buster (security)7.5.1-1.1+deb10u2fixed
bullseye7.5.1-1.1+deb11u2fixed
bullseye (security)7.5.1-1.1+deb11u3fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm8.4.4-1.1~deb12u1fixed
trixie10.1.1-0.1fixed
sid10.2-1fixed
quagga (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)0.99.23.1-1+deb8u5vulnerable
stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1.1.1-3+deb9u2vulnerable
buster1.2.4-3vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
frrsource(unstable)(not affected)
quaggasource(unstable)(unfixed)low871617

Notes

[buster] - quagga <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - quagga <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - quagga <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - quagga <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
- frr <not-affected> (Fixed before initial upload to Debian)
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/793496
https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/commit/7791d3deab8f4bbee2ccdd98ea596617536bc681

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