Juniper Junos PIM DoS (PSN-2012-07-648)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59992

Synopsis

The remote router has a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the remote router has a denial of service vulnerability. Sending a specially crafted broadcast storm of corrupt packets to the data multicast distribution tree port of a Junos router can cause the rpd daemon to hang. Only routers with PIM enabled in a Rosen MVPN configuration are affected.

Solution

Apply the relevant Junos upgrade referenced in Juniper advisory PSN-2012-07-648.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?681350f6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59992

File Name: juniper_psn-2012-07-648.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: combined

Published: 7/17/2012

Updated: 8/8/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:juniper:junos

Required KB Items: Host/Juniper/model, Host/Juniper/JUNOS/Version

Patch Publication Date: 7/10/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2012