A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the routing process daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an attacker to send a malformed BGP Path attribute update which allocates memory used to log the bad path attribute. This memory is not properly freed in all circumstances, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).
Consumed memory can be freed by manually restarting Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd).
Memory utilization could be monitored by: user@host> show system memory or show system monitor memory status
This issue affects:
Junos OS: * All versions before 21.2R3-S8,
from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S8,
from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4,
from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3,
from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S3,
from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S1,
from 23.4 before 23.4R1-S2, 23.4R2.
Junos OS Evolved:
All versions before 21.2R3-S8-EVO,
from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S8-EVO,
from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4-EVO,
from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3-EVO,
from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S3-EVO,
from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S1-EVO,
from 23.4 before 23.4R1-S2-EVO, 23.4R2-EVO.
Weakness
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junos | Juniper | * | 21.1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2 (including) | 21.2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r1 (including) | 21.2-r1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r1-s1 (including) | 21.2-r1-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r1-s2 (including) | 21.2-r1-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r2 (including) | 21.2-r2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r2-s1 (including) | 21.2-r2-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r2-s2 (including) | 21.2-r2-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r3 (including) | 21.2-r3 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r3-s1 (including) | 21.2-r3-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r3-s2 (including) | 21.2-r3-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r3-s3 (including) | 21.2-r3-s3 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r3-s4 (including) | 21.2-r3-s4 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r3-s5 (including) | 21.2-r3-s5 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r3-s6 (including) | 21.2-r3-s6 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.2-r3-s7 (including) | 21.2-r3-s7 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4 (including) | 21.4 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r1 (including) | 21.4-r1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r1-s1 (including) | 21.4-r1-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r1-s2 (including) | 21.4-r1-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r2 (including) | 21.4-r2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r2-s1 (including) | 21.4-r2-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r2-s2 (including) | 21.4-r2-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r3 (including) | 21.4-r3 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r3-s1 (including) | 21.4-r3-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r3-s2 (including) | 21.4-r3-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r3-s3 (including) | 21.4-r3-s3 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r3-s4 (including) | 21.4-r3-s4 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r3-s5 (including) | 21.4-r3-s5 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r3-s6 (including) | 21.4-r3-s6 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r3-s7 (including) | 21.4-r3-s7 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2 (including) | 22.2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2-r1 (including) | 22.2-r1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2-r1-s1 (including) | 22.2-r1-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2-r1-s2 (including) | 22.2-r1-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2-r2 (including) | 22.2-r2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2-r2-s1 (including) | 22.2-r2-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2-r2-s2 (including) | 22.2-r2-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2-r3 (including) | 22.2-r3 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2-r3-s1 (including) | 22.2-r3-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2-r3-s2 (including) | 22.2-r3-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2-r3-s3 (including) | 22.2-r3-s3 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.3 (including) | 22.3 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.3-r1 (including) | 22.3-r1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.3-r1-s1 (including) | 22.3-r1-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.3-r1-s2 (including) | 22.3-r1-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.3-r2 (including) | 22.3-r2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.3-r2-s1 (including) | 22.3-r2-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.3-r2-s2 (including) | 22.3-r2-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.3-r3 (including) | 22.3-r3 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.3-r3-s1 (including) | 22.3-r3-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.3-r3-s2 (including) | 22.3-r3-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4 (including) | 22.4 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4-r1 (including) | 22.4-r1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4-r1-s1 (including) | 22.4-r1-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4-r1-s2 (including) | 22.4-r1-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4-r2 (including) | 22.4-r2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4-r2-s1 (including) | 22.4-r2-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4-r2-s2 (including) | 22.4-r2-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4-r3 (including) | 22.4-r3 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4-r3-s1 (including) | 22.4-r3-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4-r3-s2 (including) | 22.4-r3-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.2 (including) | 23.2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.2-r1 (including) | 23.2-r1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.2-r1-s1 (including) | 23.2-r1-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.2-r1-s2 (including) | 23.2-r1-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.2-r2 (including) | 23.2-r2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.4 (including) | 23.4 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.4-r1 (including) | 23.4-r1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.4-r1-s1 (including) | 23.4-r1-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 24.2 (including) | 24.2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 24.2-r1 (including) | 24.2-r1 (including) |
Potential Mitigations
- Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
- For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
- When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
- To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.