#VU59634 Release of invalid pointer or reference in Juniper Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved - CVE-2022-22177 

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#VU59634 Release of invalid pointer or reference in Juniper Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved - CVE-2022-22177

Published: January 17, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU59634
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22177
CWE-ID: CWE-763
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Juniper Junos OS
Junos OS Evolved
Software vendor:
Juniper Networks, Inc.

Description

The vulnerability allows remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to release of illegal memory vulnerability in the snmpd daemon. A remote attacker can send specially SNMP packets to the snmpd daemon and crash it, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Note, all SNMP version requests are affected.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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