Ubuntu Security Update USN-7230-2: FRR vulnerabilities

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Iggy Frankovic discovered that FRR incorrectly handled certain BGP messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause FRR to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2024-44070) It was discovered that FRR re-validated all routes in certain instances when the internal socket's buffer size overflowed. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to impact the performance of FRR, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2024-55553)

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