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Junos: Denial of Service vulnerability in rpd daemon

Published Jul 14, 2017

Description

A denial of service vulnerability in rpd daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows a malformed MPLS ping packet to crash the rpd daemon if MPLS OAM is configured. Repeated crashes of the rpd daemon can result in an extended denial of service condition for the device. The affected releases are Junos OS 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D50, 12.3X48-D55; 13.3 prior to 13.3R10; 14.1 prior to 14.1R4-S13, 14.1R8-S3, 14.1R9; 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D42, 14.1X53-D50; 14.2 prior to 14.2R4-S8, 14.2R7-S6, 14.2R8; 15.1 prior to 15.1F2-S14, 15.1F5-S7, 15.1F6-S4, 15.1F7, 15.1R4-S7, 15.1R5-S1, 15.1R6; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D100; 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D105, 15.1X53-D47, 15.1X53-D62, 15.1X53-D70; 16.1 prior to 16.1R3-S3, 16.1R4. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue.

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Remediation

Vendor solution

There are no viable workarounds for this issue.

It is good security practice to limit the exploitable attack surface of critical infrastructure networking equipment. Use access lists or firewall filters to limit access to the router only from trusted, administrative networks or hosts.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner juniper
Published Jul 14, 2017
Updated Sep 16, 2024
Reserved Dec 1, 2016
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a