Use after free in Juniper Junos OS - CVE-2022-22207

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Use after free in Juniper Junos OS - CVE-2022-22207

Published: July 13, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU82498
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22207
CWE-ID: CWE-416
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Juniper Junos OS
Software vendor:
Juniper Networks, Inc.

Description

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 updates from vendor's website.

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