SB2022071361 - Use after free in Juniper Junos OS
Published: July 13, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022071361
CSH 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 vulnerability.
1) Use after free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22207)
CWE-ID: CWE-416 - Use After Free
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to use after free error in the Advanced Forwarding Toolkit (AFT) manager process (aftmand). A remote non-authenticated attacker can cause a kernel crash due to intensive polling of Abstracted Fabric (AF) interface statistics and thereby a Denial of Service (DoS).
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.