SB2022101277 - Memory leak in Junos OS Evolved and Juniper Junos OS
Published: October 12, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022101277
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22240)
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
An Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling and 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 a locally authenticated low privileged attacker to cause a Denial of Sevice (DoS).
In a high-scaled BGP routing environment with rib-sharding enabled, two issues may occur when executing a specific CLI command.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.