Product Affected

This issue affects Junos OS 17.3, 17.4, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 20.1, 20.2.
Medium
6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Problem

A vulnerability in the distributed or centralized periodic packet management daemon (PPMD) of Juniper Networks Junos OS may cause receipt of a malformed packet to crash and restart the PPMD process, leading to network destabilization, service interruption, and a Denial of Service (DoS) condition. Continued receipt and processing of these malformed packets will repeatedly crash the PPMD process and sustain the Denial of Service (DoS) condition.

Due to the nature of the specifically crafted packet, exploitation of this issue requires direct, adjacent connectivity to the vulnerable component.

This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS:

  • 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R3-S11;
  • 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2-S12, 17.4R3-S4;
  • 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R3-S12;
  • 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R2-S8, 18.2R3-S7;
  • 18.3 versions prior to 18.3R3-S4;
  • 18.4 versions prior to 18.4R1-S8, 18.4R2-S7, 18.4R3-S6;
  • 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R1-S6, 19.1R2-S2, 19.1R3-S4;
  • 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R1-S5, 19.2R3-S1;
  • 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S5, 19.3R3-S1;
  • 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S2, 19.4R3;
  • 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R2;
  • 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R1-S2, 20.2R2.


Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.

This issue was seen during production usage.

This issue has been assigned  CVE-2021-0214 .

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS 17.3R3-S11, 17.4R2-S12, 17.4R3-S4, 18.1R3-S12, 18.2R2-S8, 18.2R3-S7, 18.3R3-S4, 18.4R1-S8, 18.4R2-S7, 18.4R3-S6, 19.1R1-S6, 19.1R2-S2, 19.1R3-S4, 19.2R1-S5, 19.2R3-S1, 19.3R2-S5, 19.3R3-S1, 19.4R2-S2, 19.4R3, 20.1R2, 20.2R1-S2, 20.2R2, 20.3R1 , and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as  1530219 .

Software releases or updates are available for download at https://support.juniper.net/support/downloads/

Workaround

There are no viable workarounds for this issue.

Severity Assessment

Information for how Juniper Networks uses CVSS can be found at KB 16446 [juniper.net] "Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and Juniper's Security Advisories."

Modification History

2021-04-14: Initial Publication.
2021-04-14: Additional fixes to earlier maintenance releases added.

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