Juniper Junos BGP-VPLS Advertisements RPD DoS (JSA10687)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85227

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the remote Juniper Junos device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to improper handling of BGP-VPLS advertisements with updated BGP local preference values. A remote attacker can exploit this to crash RDP with a NULL pointer deference exception.

Note that this issue only affects devices with internal BGP and VPLS enabled.

Solution

Apply the relevant Junos software release or workaround referenced in Juniper advisory JSA10687.

See Also

https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10687

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85227

File Name: juniper_jsa10687.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: combined

Published: 8/4/2015

Updated: 7/12/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:juniper:junos

Required KB Items: Host/Juniper/JUNOS/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5359

BID: 75723

JSA: JSA10687