Bug 2566943 (CVE-2026-119776) - CVE-2026-119776 frr: frr: Unauthorized routing adjacency establishment via missing OSPFv3 address validation
Summary: CVE-2026-119776 frr: frr: Unauthorized routing adjacency establishment via mi...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-119776
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-04 14:25 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-04 14:39 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-04 14:25:40 UTC
In all prior released versions of FRRouting, the OSPFv3 (for IPv6) implementation does not check that OSPFv3 packets have a link-local source address and either a link-local destination or one of the protocol multicast destination groups.  This may enable malicious actors to establish OSPFv3 adjacencies from unexpectedly, distant IPv6 hosts. Proper usage of OSPFv3 authentication trailers (RFC 7166, as is best practice) prevents full exploitation of this issue, though may allow a malicious actor to waste CPU on authentication checks.



Note the linked PR #23935 is not sufficient to fix the issue as it only verifies the source address. It is the destination address that must be checked.


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