A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Anti-Virus processing of Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX Series
allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).
On all SRX platforms with Anti-Virus enabled, if a server sends specific content in the HTTP body of a response to a client request, these packets are queued by Anti-Virus processing in Juniper Buffers (jbufs) which are never released. When these jbufs are exhausted, the device stops forwarding all transit traffic.
A jbuf memory leak can be noticed from the following logs:
(.) Warning: jbuf pool id <#> utilization level (%) is above %!
To recover from this issue, the affected device needs to be manually rebooted to free the leaked jbufs.
This issue affects Junos OS on SRX Series:
- all versions before 21.2R3-S9,
- 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S10,
- 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S6,
- 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S6,
- 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S3,
- 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S3,
- 24.2 versions before 24.2R2.
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 | * | 21.2 (excluding) |
| 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 | 21.2-r3-s8 (including) | 21.2-r3-s8 (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 | 21.4-r3-s8 (including) | 21.4-r3-s8 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 21.4-r3-s9 (including) | 21.4-r3-s9 (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 | 22.2-r3-s4 (including) | 22.2-r3-s4 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.2-r3-s5 (including) | 22.2-r3-s5 (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 | 22.4-r3-s3 (including) | 22.4-r3-s3 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4-r3-s4 (including) | 22.4-r3-s4 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 22.4-r3-s5 (including) | 22.4-r3-s5 (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 | 23.2-r2-s1 (including) | 23.2-r2-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.2-r2-s2 (including) | 23.2-r2-s2 (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 | 23.4-r1-s2 (including) | 23.4-r1-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.4-r2 (including) | 23.4-r2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.4-r2-s1 (including) | 23.4-r2-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 23.4-r2-s2 (including) | 23.4-r2-s2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 24.2 (including) | 24.2 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 24.2-r1 (including) | 24.2-r1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 24.2-r1-s1 (including) | 24.2-r1-s1 (including) |
| Junos | Juniper | 24.2-r1-s2 (including) | 24.2-r1-s2 (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.