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CVE-2021-0242

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
22/04/2021
Last modified:
05/08/2022

Description

A vulnerability due to the improper handling of direct memory access (DMA) buffers on EX4300 switches on Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an attacker sending specific unicast frames to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) condition by exhausting DMA buffers, causing the FPC to crash and the device to restart. The DMA buffer leak is seen when receiving these specific, valid unicast frames on an interface without Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling (L2PT) or dot1x configured. Interfaces with either L2PT or dot1x configured are not vulnerable to this issue. When this issue occurs, DMA buffer usage keeps increasing and the following error log messages may be observed: Apr 14 14:29:34.360 /kernel: pid 64476 (pfex_junos), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Apr 14 14:29:33.790 init: pfe-manager (PID 64476) terminated by signal number 11. Core dumped! The DMA buffers on the FPC can be monitored by the executing vty command 'show heap': ID Base Total(b) Free(b) Used(b) % Name -- ---------- ----------- ----------- ----------- --- ----------- 0 4a46000 268435456 238230496 30204960 11 Kernel 1 18a46000 67108864 17618536 49490328 73 Bcm_sdk 2 23737000 117440512 18414552 99025960 84 DMA buf

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
6.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vector 2.0
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.10 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
6.10
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r1-s1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r1-s4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r2-s1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r2-s2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r2-s3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r2-s4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r2-s5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r3:-:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r3-s1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r3-s10:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:juniper:junos:17.3:r3-s2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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