SB2022011706 - Denial of service in Junos OS snmpd



SB2022011706 - Denial of service in Junos OS snmpd

Published: January 17, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2022011706
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Partial DoS

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Release of invalid pointer or reference (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22177)

CWE-ID: CWE-763 - Release of invalid pointer or reference

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


The vulnerability allows remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to release of illegal memory vulnerability in the snmpd daemon. A remote attacker can send specially SNMP packets to the snmpd daemon and crash it, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Note, all SNMP version requests are affected.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.