CVE-2020-1683

Junos OS: Memory leak leads to kernel crash (vmcore) due to SNMP polling

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Oct 16, 2020
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Nov 4, 2019

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Description

On Juniper Networks Junos OS devices, a specific SNMP OID poll causes a memory leak which over time leads to a kernel crash (vmcore). Prior to the kernel crash other processes might be impacted, such as failure to establish SSH connection to the device. The administrator can monitor the output of the following command to check if there is memory leak caused by this issue: user@device> show system virtual-memory | match "pfe_ipc|kmem" pfe_ipc 147 5K - 164352 16,32,64,8192 <-- increasing vm.kmem_map_free: 127246336 <-- decreasing pfe_ipc 0 0K - 18598 32,8192 vm.kmem_map_free: 134582272 This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS: 17.4R3; 18.1 version 18.1R3-S5 and later versions prior to 18.1R3-S10; 18.2 version 18.2R3 and later versions prior to 18.2R3-S3; 18.2X75 version 18.2X75-D420, 18.2X75-D50 and later versions prior to 18.2X75-D430, 18.2X75-D53, 18.2X75-D60; 18.3 version 18.3R3 and later versions prior to 18.3R3-S2; 18.4 version 18.4R1-S4, 18.4R2 and later versions prior to 18.4R2-S5, 18.4R3-S1; 19.1 version 19.1R2 and later versions prior to 19.1R2-S2, 19.1R3; 19.2 version 19.2R1 and later versions prior to 19.2R1-S5, 19.2R2; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R2-S5, 19.3R3; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R1-S3, 19.4R2. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS prior to 17.4R3.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hjuniper

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • 17.4R3Affected
  • before 17.4R3Not affected
  • 18.1R3-S5 to before 18.1*Affectedfrom 18.1R3-S10Not affected
  • 18.2R3 to before 18.2*Affectedfrom 18.2R3-S3Not affected
  • 18.2X75-D420, 18.2X75-D50 to before 18.2X75*Affectedfrom 18.2X75-D430, 18.2X75-D53, 18.2X75-D60Not affected
  • 18.3R3 to before 18.3*Affectedfrom 18.3R3-S2Not affected
  • 18.4R1-S4, 18.4R2 to before 18.4*Affectedfrom 18.4R2-S5, 18.4R3-S1Not affected
  • 19.1R2 to before 19.1*Affectedfrom 19.1R2-S2, 19.1R3Not affected
  • 19.2R1 to before 19.2*Affectedfrom 19.2R1-S5, 19.2R2Not affected
  • 19.3 to before 19.3R2-S5, 19.3R3Affected
  • 19.4 to before 19.4R1-S3, 19.4R2Affected

References

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