Product Affected

This issue affects Junos OS 20.4, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4, 22.1. Affected platforms: MX Series, SRX Series.
High
7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Problem

An Access of Uninitialized Pointer vulnerability in SIP Application Layer Gateway (ALG) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series and MX Series allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

When specific valid SIP packets are received the PFE will crash and restart.

This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series and MX Series:

  • 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S4;
  • 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S2;
  • 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S2;
  • 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R2-S2, 21.3R3;
  • 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2;
  • 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R1-S1, 22.1R2.

This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 20.4R1.

To be affected the SIP ALG needs to be enabled, either implicitly / by default or by way of configuration.

Please verify on SRX with:

user@host> show security alg status | match sip
SIP : Enabled

Please verify on MX whether the following is configured:

[services ... rule <rule-name> (term <term-name> ) from/match application/application-set <name>]

where either

a. name = junos-sip

or an application or application-set refers to SIP:

b. [applications application <name> application-protocol sip]
or
c. [applications application-set <name> application junos-sip]

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-2022-22236.

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 20.4R3-S4, 21.1R3-S2, 21.2R3-S2, 21.3R2-S2, 21.3R3, 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2, 21.4R3, 22.1R1-S1, 22.1R2, 22.2R1, and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as PR 1650755 which is visible on the Customer Support website.

Note: Juniper SIRT's policy  is not to evaluate releases which are beyond End of Engineering (EOE) or End of Life (EOL).

IMPLEMENTATION:

Software Releases, patches and updates are available at https://support.juniper.net/support/downloads/.

Workaround

There are no known 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

2022-10-12: Initial Publication

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