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Juniper Junos OS: 2018-10 Security Bulletin: MX Series: In BBE configurations, receipt of a crafted IPv6 exception packet causes a Denial of Service (JSA10893) (CVE-2018-0058)

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Juniper Junos OS: 2018-10 Security Bulletin: MX Series: In BBE configurations, receipt of a crafted IPv6 exception packet causes a Denial of Service (JSA10893) (CVE-2018-0058)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/10/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/11/2018
Modified
03/21/2022

Description

Receipt of a specially crafted IPv6 exception packet may be able to trigger a kernel crash (vmcore), causing the device to reboot. The issue is specific to the processing of Broadband Edge (BBE) client route processing on MX Series subscriber management platforms, introduced by the Tomcat (Next Generation Subscriber Management) functionality in Junos OS 15.1. This issue affects no other platforms or configurations. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R7-S2, 15.1R8 on MX Series; 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R4-S11, 16.1R7-S2, 16.1R8 on MX Series; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R3 on MX Series; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S9, 17.1R3 on MX Series; 17.2 versions prior to 17.2R2-S6, 17.2R3 on MX Series; 17.3 versions prior to 17.3R2-S4, 17.3R3-S2, 17.3R4 on MX Series; 17.4 versions prior to 17.4R2 on MX Series; 18.1 versions prior to 18.1R2-S3, 18.1R3 on MX Series; 18.2 versions prior to 18.2R1-S1, 18.2R2 on MX Series.

Solution(s)

  • juniper-junos-os-upgrade-latest

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