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Junos SIP ALG Denial of Service Vulnerability

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

JunOS Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

9 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

DoS on SRX devices when SIP ALG is enabled

Insight

Insight

On SRX Series devices, when SIP ALG is enabled, a certain crafted SIP packet may cause the flowd process to crash. SIP ALG is enabled by default on SRX Series devices except for SRX-HE devices. SRX-HE devices have SIP ALG disabled by default. The status of ALGs can beobtained by executing the 'show security alg status' CLI command.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Junos OS 12.1X46 and 12.1X47

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. As a workaround disable SIP ALG or enable flow-based processing for IPv6 traffic.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)