Path Attribute Attack

Pim van Pelt pim at ipng.nl
Mon Sep 18 16:18:23 CEST 2023


Hoi,

The researcher published an article which claimed bird and bird2 are immune
to the attack described.

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-path-attributes-grave-error-handling

Pim

On Mon, 18 Sep 2023 at 15:52, Michael Lambert <lambert at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> As outlined in https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/347067, there is an attack
> that uses specially crafted Path Attributes in a BGP UPDATE message to
> disrupt peering sessions. I don’t recall seeing any discussions of this
> attack on this list. Is BIRD susceptible?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
>
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