Product Affected

This issue affects Junos OS Evolved 23.2-EVO.
Medium
CVSS 3.1: 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVSS 4.0: 7.1 (CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N)

Problem

A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

When Layer 2 traffic is sent through a logical interface, MAC learning happens. If during this process, the interface flaps, an Advanced Forwarding Toolkit manager (evo-aftmand-bt) core is observed. This leads to a PFE restart. The crash reoccurs if the same sequence of events happens, which will lead to a sustained DoS condition.

This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved:
23.2-EVO versions earlier than 23.2R1-S1-EVO, 23.2R2-EVO.

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 23.2R1-S1-EVO, 23.2R2-EVO, 23.4R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as 1736588 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).

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

2024-04-10 - Initial Publication
2024-09-13: Minor formatting change to CVSS field

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