CVE-2017-2315 Information

Description

On Juniper Networks EX Series Ethernet Switches running affected Junos OS versions a vulnerability in IPv6 processing has been discovered that may allow a specially crafted IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) packet destined to an EX Series Ethernet Switch to cause a slow memory leak. A malicious network-based packet flood of these crafted IPv6 NDP packets may eventually lead to resource exhaustion and a denial of service. The affected Junos OS versions are: 12.3 prior to 12.3R12-S4 12.3R13; 13.3 prior to 13.3R10; 14.1 prior to 14.1R8-S3 14.1R9; 14.1X53 prior ro 14.1X53-D12 14.1X53-D40; 14.1X55 prior to 14.1X55-D35; 14.2 prior to 14.2R6-S4 14.2R7-S6 14.2R8; 15.1 prior to 15.1R5; 16.1 before 16.1R3; 16.2 before 16.2R1-S3 16.2R2. 17.1R1 and all subsequent releases have a resolution for this vulnerability.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97615 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038253 https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10781

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5