CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-2315

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-04-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-04-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-772

Description

On Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches running affected Junos OS versions, a vulnerability in IPv6 processing has been discovered that may allow a specially crafted IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) packet destined to an EX Series Ethernet Switch to cause a slow memory leak. A malicious network-based packet flood of these crafted IPv6 NDP packets may eventually lead to resource exhaustion and a denial of service. The affected Junos OS versions are: 12.3 prior to 12.3R12-S4, 12.3R13; 13.3 prior to 13.3R10; 14.1 prior to 14.1R8-S3, 14.1R9; 14.1X53 prior ro 14.1X53-D12, 14.1X53-D40; 14.1X55 prior to 14.1X55-D35; 14.2 prior to 14.2R6-S4, 14.2R7-S6, 14.2R8; 15.1 prior to 15.1R5; 16.1 before 16.1R3; 16.2 before 16.2R1-S3, 16.2R2. 17.1R1 and all subsequent releases have a resolution for this vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• juniper junos 12.3 • juniper junos 13.3 • juniper junos 14.1 • juniper junos 14.1x53 • juniper junos 14.1x55 • juniper junos 14.2 • juniper junos 15.1 • juniper junos 16.1 • juniper junos 16.2 • juniper junos 17.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-772 Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime weakness

References