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An Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 12, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 26, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

An Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer vulnerability in the Layer-2 Control Protocols Daemon (l2cpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause Denial of Service (DoS).

On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms, when LLDP is enabled on a specific interface, and a malformed LLDP packet is received, l2cpd crashes and restarts. The impact of the l2cpd crash is reinitialization of STP protocols (RSTP, MSTP or VSTP), and MVRP and ERP. Also, if any services depend on LLDP state (like PoE or VoIP device recognition), then these will also be affected.

This issue affects:

Junos OS:

  • from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S4, 

  • from 22.1 before 22.1R3-S4, 

  • from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S2, 

  • from 22.3 before 22.3R2-S2, 22.3R3-S1, 

  • from 22.4 before 22.4R3, 

  • from 23.2 before 23.2R2.

Junos OS Evolved:

  • from 21.4-EVO before 21.4R3-S5-EVO, 

  • from 22.1-EVO before 22.1R3-S4-EVO, 

  • from 22.2-EVO before 22.2R3-S2-EVO, 

  • from 22.3-EVO before 22.3R2-S2-EVO, 22.3R3-S1-EVO, 

  • from 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-EVO, 

  • from 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-EVO.

This issue does not affect:

  • Junos OS versions prior to 21.4R1;

  • Junos OS Evolved versions prior to 21.4R1-EVO.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 12, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 12, 2024
Last updated May 26, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Adjacent
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.065%
(30th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-21618

GHSA ID

GHSA-6rj9-5jww-q88j

Source code

No known source code

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