Missing release of memory after effective lifetime in Juniper Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved - CVE-2024-39549
Published: July 15, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU94337
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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-2024-39549
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Juniper Networks, Inc.
Affected software:
Juniper Junos OS
Junos OS Evolved
Juniper Junos OS
Junos OS Evolved
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to missing release of memory after effective lifetime error in the routing process daemon (rpd). A remote non-authenticated attacker can send a malformed BGP Path attribute update which allocates memory used to log the bad path attribute.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-39549
Install updates from vendor's website.