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Product Affected

This issue affects all versions of Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved.

Severity

Medium

Severity Assessment (CVSS) Score

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:L)

Problem

An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a logically adjacent downstream RSVP neighbor to cause kernel memory exhaustion, leading to a kernel crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

The kernel memory leak and eventual crash will be seen when the downstream RSVP neighbor has a persistent error which will not be corrected.

This issue affects:

Junos OS:

All versions before 20.4R3-S9,
All versions of 21.2,
from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S5,
from 22.1 before 22.1R3-S5,
from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S3,
from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S2,
from 22.4 before 22.4R3,
from 23.2 before 23.2R2;

Junos OS Evolved:

All versions before 21.4R3-S5-EVO,
from 22.1-EVO before 22.1R3-S5-EVO,
from 22.2-EVO before 22.2R3-S3-EVO,
from 22.3-EVO before 22.3R3-S2-EVO,
from 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-EVO,
from 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-EVO.

This issue only affects systems configured with RSVP. A minimum RSVP configuration is shown below:
[edit protocols rsvp]

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

This issue was seen during production usage.

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue:

Junos OS: 20.4R3-S10, 20.4R3-S9, 21.4R3-S5, 22.1R3-S5, 22.2R3-S3, 22.3R3-S2, 22.4R3, 23.2R2, 23.4R1, and all subsequent releases.
Junos OS Evolved: 21.4R3-S5-EVO, 22.1R3-S5-EVO, 22.2R3-S3-EVO, 22.3R3-S2-EVO, 22.4R3-EVO, 23.2R2-EVO, 23.4R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as 1732862 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."

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