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Juniper Junos OS: 2021-07 Security Bulletin: Junos OS: FreeBSD-EN-18:11.listen: TCP during bind, listen or connect and UDP during bind may experience Denial of Service for IPv6 based sockets. (JSA11178) (CVE-2018-6925)

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Juniper Junos OS: 2021-07 Security Bulletin: Junos OS: FreeBSD-EN-18:11.listen: TCP during bind, listen or connect and UDP during bind may experience Denial of Service for IPv6 based sockets. (JSA11178) (CVE-2018-6925)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/28/2018
Created
07/16/2021
Added
07/15/2021
Modified
03/21/2022

Description

In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r338986), 11.2-RELEASE-p4, 11.1-RELEASE-p15, 10.4-STABLE(r338985), and 10.4-RELEASE-p13, due to improper maintenance of IPv6 protocol control block flags through various failure paths, an unprivileged authenticated local user may be able to cause a NULL pointer dereference causing the kernel to crash.

Solution(s)

  • juniper-junos-os-upgrade-latest

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