SB2022011706 - Denial of service in Junos OS snmpd
Published: January 17, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022011706
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Release of invalid pointer or reference (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22177)
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.