An Improper Input Validation vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). If the receipt of router advertisements is enabled on an interface and a specifically malformed RA packet is received, memory corruption will happen which leads to an rpd crash. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S5; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2; 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R2. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved 20.3-EVO version 20.3R1-EVO and later versions; 20.4-EVO versions prior to 20.4R3-S6-EVO; 21.3-EVO versions prior to 21.3R3-EVO; 21.4-EVO versions prior to 21.4R2-EVO; 22.1-EVO versions prior to 22.1R2-EVO.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-32599 An Improper Input Validation vulnerability in the kernel of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). If the receipt of router advertisements is enabled on an interface and a specifically malformed RA packet is received, memory corruption will happen which leads to an rpd crash. This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S5; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3-S4; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R3; 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R2; 22.1 versions prior to 22.1R2. Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved 20.3-EVO version 20.3R1-EVO and later versions; 20.4-EVO versions prior to 20.4R3-S6-EVO; 21.3-EVO versions prior to 21.3R3-EVO; 21.4-EVO versions prior to 21.4R2-EVO; 22.1-EVO versions prior to 22.1R2-EVO.
Fixes

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: Junos OS Evolved: 20.4R3-S6-EVO, 21.3R3-EVO, 21.4R2-EVO, 22.1R2-EVO, 22.2R1-EVO, and all subsequent releases. Junos OS: 20.3R3-S5, 20.4R3-S3, 21.1R3-S4, 21.2R3, 21.3R3, 21.4R2, 22.1R2, 22.2R1, and all subsequent releases.


Workaround

If the receipt of router advertisements is not necessary (but just the solicited or unsolicited sending of RAs) then incoming RAs can be filtered and dropped by applying a firewall filter like the following: set firewall family inet6 filter test term 1 from next-header icmp6 set firewall family inet6 filter test term 1 from icmp-type 134 set firewall family inet6 filter test term 1 then discard set firewall family inet6 filter test term 2 then accept

References
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: juniper

Published:

Updated: 2025-02-05T21:40:20.322Z

Reserved: 2023-03-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-28981

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T13:51:39.003Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-17T22:15:09.687

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:56:20.093

Link: CVE-2023-28981

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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