CVE-2025-61104

Publication date 28 October 2025

Last updated 31 October 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

FRRouting/frr from v4.0 through v10.4.1 was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the show_vty_unknown_tlv function at ospf_ext.c. This vulnerability allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted OSPF packet.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
frr	25.10 questing	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	25.04 plucky	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable, fix deferred
quagga	25.10 questing	Not in release
	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable, fix deferred

Notes

sbeattie

the quagga project was renamed to frr

mdeslaur

as of 2025-10-31, the proposed fix has not been commited yet

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
frr	Upstream: https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/pull/19480

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H