CVE-2024-39560: high-severity vulnerability in Juniper Networks Junos OS
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Memory leak due to RSVP neighbor persistent error leading to kernel crash
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.1epss 0.2%
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.
System kernel memory can be monitored through the use of the 'show system kernel memory' command as shown below:
user@router> show system kernel memory
Real memory total/reserved: 4130268/ 133344 Kbytes
kmem map free: 18014398509110220 Kbytes
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.
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/R:A
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