Stack-based buffer overflow in Juniper Junos OS - CVE-2024-30392

 

Stack-based buffer overflow in Juniper Junos OS - CVE-2024-30392

Published: April 11, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU88448
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-2024-30392
CWE-ID: CWE-121
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 stack-based buffer overflow error in Flow Processing Daemon (flowd). A remote non-authenticated attacker can cause Denial of Service (DoS).

On all Junos OS MX Series platforms with SPC3 and MS-MPC/-MIC, when URL filtering is enabled and a specific URL request is received and processed, flowd will crash and restart.

Continuous reception of the specific URL request will lead to a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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