CVE-2024-21611 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Networks Junos OS
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 52.48%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJan 12
Description
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).
In a Juniper Flow Monitoring (jflow) scenario route churn that causes BGP next hops to be updated will cause a slow memory leak and eventually a crash and restart of rpd.
Thread level memory utilization for the areas where the leak occurs can be checked usin…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-gpx7-7c62-m3g8: A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evol↗2024-01-12
CVEList▶
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: In a jflow scenario continuous route churn will cause a memory leak and eventually an rpd crash↗2024-01-12
📋Vendor Advisories
1Juniper▶
CVE-2024-21611:
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evo↗2024-01-12