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Junos RPD DoS Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

JunOS Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

6 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

Junos OS is prone to a denial of service vulnerability in RPD due to malformed BGP OPEN message.

Insight

Insight

Receipt of a malformed BGP OPEN message may cause the routing protocol daemon (rpd) process to crash and restart. By continuously sending specially crafted BGP OPEN message packets, an attacker can repetitively crash the rpd process causing prolonged denial of service.

Affected Software

Affected Software

This issue affects Junos OS 12.3, 13.3, 14.1, 14.2 and 15.1.

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.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)