uint8_t type = 0;
/* BGP Graceful-Restart End-of-RIB for IPv4 unicast is signaled as an
- * empty UPDATE. */
+ * empty UPDATE. Treat-as-withdraw, otherwise if we just ignore it,
+ * we will pass it to be processed as a normal UPDATE without mandatory
+ * attributes, that could lead to harmful behavior.
+ */
if (CHECK_FLAG(peer->cap, PEER_CAP_RESTART_RCV) && !attr->flag &&
!length)
- return BGP_ATTR_PARSE_PROCEED;
+ return BGP_ATTR_PARSE_WITHDRAW;
/* "An UPDATE message that contains the MP_UNREACH_NLRI is not required
to carry any other path attributes.", though if MP_REACH_NLRI or NLRI
aspath_unintern(&as4_path);
transit = bgp_attr_get_transit(attr);
- if (ret != BGP_ATTR_PARSE_ERROR) {
+ /* If we received an UPDATE with mandatory attributes, then
+ * the unrecognized transitive optional attribute of that
+ * path MUST be passed. Otherwise, it's an error, and from
+ * security perspective it might be very harmful if we continue
+ * here with the unrecognized attributes.
+ */
+ if (ret == BGP_ATTR_PARSE_PROCEED) {
/* Finally intern unknown attribute. */
if (transit)
bgp_attr_set_transit(attr, transit_intern(transit));