CVE-2024-21599 (GCVE-0-2024-21599)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-12 00:53
Modified
2025-06-16 18:33
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
  • Denial of Service (DoS)
Summary
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). If an MX Series device receives PTP packets on an MPC3E that doesn't support PTP this causes a memory leak which will result in unpredictable behavior and ultimately in an MPC crash and restart. To monitor for this issue, please use the following FPC vty level commands: show heap shows an increase in "LAN buffer" utilization and show clksync ptp nbr-upd-info shows non-zero "Pending PFEs" counter. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series with MPC3E: * All versions earlier than 20.4R3-S3; * 21.1 versions earlier than 21.1R3-S4; * 21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3; * 21.3 versions earlier than 21.3R2-S1, 21.3R3; * 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R2; * 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R2.
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Vendor Product Version
Juniper Networks Junos OS Version: 0   ≤
Version: 21.1   ≤
Version: 21.2   ≤
Version: 21.3   ≤
Version: 21.4   ≤
Version: 22.1   ≤
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