CVE-2018-0002 MX series, SRX series: Junos OS: Denial of service vulnerability in Flowd on devices with ALG enabled.
Attackers can cause a denial of service by crashing the flowd daemon via crafted packets on Juniper devices with ALG enabled.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-0002?
CVE-2018-0002 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Juniper Junos, published on 10 Jan 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
On SRX Series and MX Series devices with a Service PIC with any ALG enabled, a crafted TCP/IP response packet processed through the device results in memory corruption leading to a flowd daemon crash. Sustained crafted response packets lead to repeated crashes of the flowd daemon which results in an extended Denial of Service condition. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 12.1X46 versions prior to 12.1X46-D60 on SRX series; 12.3X48 versions prior to 12.3X48-D35 on SRX series; 14.1 versions prior to 14.1R9 on MX series; 14.2 versions prior to 14.2R8 on MX series; 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D60 on SRX series; 15.1 versions prior to 15.1R5-S8, 15.1F6-S9, 15.1R6-S4, 15.1R7 on MX series; 16.1 versions prior to 16.1R6 on MX series; 16.2 versions prior to 16.2R3 on MX series; 17.1 versions prior to 17.1R2-S4, 17.1R3 on MX series. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-0002?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Juniper Junos.
How do I fix CVE-2018-0002?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-0002 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2018-0002 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-0002 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-w7r7-44qw-8v64.