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Junos EX Series DoS Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Junos OS on EX series is prone to a denial of service vulnerability in IPv6 processing.
Insight
Insight
A vulnerability in IPv6 processing has been discovered that may allow a specially crafted IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) packet destined to an EX Series Ethernet Switches to cause a slow memory leak. A malicious network-based packet flood of these crafted IPv6 NDP packets may eventually lead to resource exhaustion and a denial of service.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Junos OS 12.3, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1, 16.1 and 16.2
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable OS build is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
New builds of Junos OS software are available from Juniper.