CVE-2024-47493

published 2024-10-11

CVE-2024-47493: A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of the Juniper Networks Junos OS on the MX Series…

Priority P4 29 medium 6.5 CVSS 3.1

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

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of the Juniper Networks Junos OS on the MX Series platforms with Trio-based FPCs allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).

In case of channelized Modular Interface Cards (MICs), every physical interface flap operation will leak heap memory. Over a period of time, continuous physical interface flap operations causes local FPC to eventually run out of memory and crash.

Below CLI command can be used to check the memory usage over a period of time:

user@host> show chassis fpc

Temp CPU Utilization (%) CPU Utilization (%) Memory
Utilization (%)
Slot State (C) Total Interrupt 1min 5min
15min DRAM (MB) Heap Buffer

0
Online 43 41
2 2048 49 14

1
Online 43 41
2
2048 49 14

2
Online 43 41
2
2048 49 14

This issue affects Junos OS on MX Series:

* All versions before 21.2R3-S7,
* from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S6,
* 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,
* from 23.4 before 23.4R2.

Affected

19 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
juniper	junos	< 21.2	21.2
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	< 21.2R3-S7	21.2R3-S7
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 21.4 < 21.4R3-S6	21.4R3-S6
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 22.1 < 22.1R3-S5	22.1R3-S5
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 < 22.4R3	22.4R3
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 23.2 < 23.2R2	23.2R2
juniper_networks	junos_os	>= 23.4 < 23.4R2	23.4R2

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 6.5 MEDIUM CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v4.0 7.1 HIGH 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:Y/R:A/V:X/RE:X/U:Green

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