CVE-2024-21587

published 2024-01-12

CVE-2024-21587: An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the broadband edge subscriber management daemon (bbe-smgd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX…

Priority P4 28 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.1

AV A AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the broadband edge subscriber management daemon (bbe-smgd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an attacker directly connected to the vulnerable system who repeatedly flaps DHCP subscriber sessions to cause a slow memory leak, ultimately leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). Memory can only be recovered by manually restarting bbe-smgd.

This issue only occurs if BFD liveness detection for DHCP subscribers is enabled. Systems without BFD liveness detection enabled are not vulnerable to this issue.

Indication of the issue can be observed by periodically executing the 'show system processes extensive' command, which will indicate an increase in memory allocation for bbe-smgd. A small amount of memory is leaked every time a DHCP subscriber logs in, which will become visible over time, ultimately leading to memory starvation.

user@junos> show system processes extensive | match bbe-smgd
13071 root 24 0 415M 201M select 0 0:41 7.28% bbe-smgd{bbe-smgd}
13071 root 20 0 415M 201M select 1 0:04 0.00% bbe-smgd{bbe-smgd}
...
user@junos> show system processes extensive | match bbe-smgd
13071 root 20 0 420M 208M select 0 4:33 0.10% bbe-smgd{bbe-smgd}
13071 root 20 0 420M 208M select 0 0:12 0.00% bbe-smgd{bbe-smgd}
...
This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series:

* All versions earlier than 20.4R3-S9;
* 21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3-S7;
* 21.3 versions earlier than 21.3R3-S5;
* 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S5;
* 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3-S4;
* 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3-S3;
* 22.3 versions earlier than 22.3R3-S2;
* 22.4 versions earlier than 22.4R2-S2, 22.4R3;
* 23.2 versions earlier than 23.2R1-S1, 23.2R2.

Affected

20 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos	—	—
juniper	junos_os	—	—
juniper	mx_series	—	—
juniper_networks	junos_os	< 20.4R3-S9	20.4R3-S9
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 21.2 < 21.2R3-S7	21.2R3-S7
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 21.3 < 21.3R3-S5	21.3R3-S5
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 21.4 < 21.4R3-S5	21.4R3-S5
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.1 < 22.1R3-S4	22.1R3-S4
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.2 < 22.2R3-S3	22.2R3-S3
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.3 < 22.3R3-S2	22.3R3-S2
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.4 < 22.4R2-S2, 22.4R3	22.4R2-S2, 22.4R3
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 23.2 < 23.2R1-S1, 23.2R2	23.2R1-S1, 23.2R2

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