7.5
CWE
400
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2018-0048: Junos OS: Memory exhaustion denial of service vulnerability in Routing Protocols Daemon (RPD) with Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET) support.

First published: Wed Oct 10 2018(Updated: )

A vulnerability in the Routing Protocols Daemon (RPD) with Juniper Extension Toolkit (JET) support can allow a network based unauthenticated attacker to cause a severe memory exhaustion condition on the device. This can have an adverse impact on the system performance and availability. This issue only affects devices with JET support running Junos OS 17.2R1 and subsequent releases. Other versions of Junos OS are unaffected by this vulnerability. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R1-S7, 17.2R2-S6, 17.2R3; 17.2X75 versions prior to 17.2X75-D102, 17.2X75-D110; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R2-S4, 17.3R3; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R1-S5, 17.4R2; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R2-S3, 18.1R3;

Credit: sirt@juniper.net

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Juniper JUNOS=17.2
Juniper JUNOS=17.2-r1
Juniper JUNOS=17.2x75
Juniper JUNOS=17.3
Juniper JUNOS=17.3-r1
Juniper JUNOS=17.3-r2
Juniper JUNOS=17.4
Juniper JUNOS=17.4-r1
Juniper JUNOS=18.1
Juniper JUNOS=18.1-r1

Remedy

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: 17.2R1-S7, 17.2R2-S6, 17.2R3, 17.2X75-D102, 17.2X75-D110, 17.3R2-S4, 17.3R3, 17.4R1-S5, 17.4R2, 18.1R2-S3, 18.1R3, 18.2R1, 18.2X75-D10, 18.3R1, and all subsequent releases.

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