CVE-2024-21599 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Networks Junos OS

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime4 documents4 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 84.02%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Juniper Networks Junos OSJuniper Junos
Timeline
PublishedJan 12

Description

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). If an MX Series device receives PTP packets on an MPC3E that doesn't support PTP this causes a memory leak which will result in unpredictable behavior and ultimately in an MPC crash and restart. To monitor for this issue, please use the following FPC vty level commands:…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5juniper_networks/junos_os21.1 — 21.1R3-S4+5
▶NVDjuniper/junos6 versions+5

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-pw7f-949h-594r: A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series all↗2024-01-12
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CVEList
Junos OS: MX Series: MPC3E memory leak with PTP configuration↗2024-01-12
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Juniper
CVE-2024-21599: A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series al↗2024-01-12
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CVE-2024-21599 — Networks Junos OS vulnerability | cvebase