Product Affected

No Juniper Networks products are affected by this vulnerability.
Low

Problem

A recently-published security advisory from FreeBSD.org describes a vulnerability with ICMPv6. Insufficient validation of the ICMPv6 "Packet Too Big" message can result in a subsequent TCP connection crashing the kernel.

The JUNOS Operating system is based on and uses components from FreeBSD.

Solution

At this time, static analysis of the source code indicates that JUNOS is not exposed or vulnerable to this IPv6 issue. Detailed static analysis has determined that JUNOS's ICMPv6 code implements additional validations, policing, and optimizations beyond those in FreeBSD. JUNOS also implements additional features which can be used to mitigate this attack vector.


Further analysis and testing has been conducted which verified that JUNOS software is not susceptible to this vulnerability.

JUNOS software is currently believed not to be susceptible to this vulnerability. No customer action is indicated at this time.

Severity Assessment

JUNOS software is currently believed not to be susceptible to this vulnerability.

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