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Juniper Junos OS: 2023-04 Security Bulletin: Junos OS: MX Series: In a BBE scenario upon receipt of specific malformed packets from subscribers the process bbe-smgd will crash (JSA70599) (CVE-2023-28974)

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Juniper Junos OS: 2023-04 Security Bulletin: Junos OS: MX Series: In a BBE scenario upon receipt of specific malformed packets from subscribers the process bbe-smgd will crash (JSA70599) (CVE-2023-28974)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/12/2023
Created
05/05/2023
Added
04/13/2023
Modified
12/06/2023

Description

An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the bbe-smgd of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). In a Broadband Edge / Subscriber Management scenario on MX Series when a specifically malformed ICMP packet addressed to the device is received from a subscriber the bbe-smgd will crash, affecting the subscriber sessions that are connecting, updating, or terminating. Continued receipt of such packets will lead to a sustained DoS condition. When this issue happens the below log can be seen if the traceoptions for the processes smg-service are enabled: BBE_TRACE(TRACE_LEVEL_INFO, "%s: Dropped unsupported ICMP PKT ... This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series: All versions prior to 19.4R3-S11; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S7; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S6; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S6; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3-S4; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3-S3; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R3-S2; 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R2-S2, 22.1R3; 22.2 versions prior to 22.2R2; 22.3 versions prior to 22.3R1-S2, 22.3R2.

Solution(s)

  • juniper-junos-os-upgrade-latest

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