Researchers Uncover New BGP Flaws in Popular Internet Routing Protocol Software

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered weaknesses in a software implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol BGP that could be weaponized to achieve a denial-of-service DoS condition on vulnerable BGP peers. The three vulnerabilities reside in version 8.4 of FRRouting, a popular open source...

CVE-2017-2314

Receipt of a malformed BGP OPEN message may cause the routing protocol daemon rpd process to crash and restart. By continuously sending specially crafted BGP OPEN messages, an attacker can repeatedly crash the rpd process causing prolonged denial of service. No other Juniper Networks products or...