Juniper JUNOS BGP UPDATE Message Processing Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA28100
Release Date: 2007-12-17
Last Update: 2008-05-02
Popularity: 4,741 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:JUNOS 8.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-6372


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Juniper JUNOS, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing BGP UPDATE messages and can be exploited to cause BGP session flapping via specially crafted BGP messages.

Solution:
Apply updates (contact the vendor for more information).

Changelog:
2007-12-18: Added CVE reference.
2008-05-02: Added link to US-CERT.

Original Advisory:
https://www.juniper.net/alerts/viewal...er=PSN-2007-12-008&viewMod e=view

Other References:
US-CERT VU#929656:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/929656


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