CVE-2022-22249

Junos OS: MX Series: An FPC crash might be seen due to mac-moves within the same bridge domain

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Oct 18, 2022
Updated
May 9, 2025
Reserved
Dec 21, 2021

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Description

An Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). When there is a continuous mac move a memory corruption causes one or more FPCs to crash and reboot. These MAC moves can be between two local interfaces or between core/EVPN and local interface. The below error logs can be seen in PFE syslog when this issue happens: xss_event_handler(1071): EA[0:0]_PPE 46.xss[0] ADDR Error. ppe_error_interrupt(4298): EA[0:0]_PPE 46 Errors sync xtxn error xss_event_handler(1071): EA[0:0]_PPE 1.xss[0] ADDR Error. ppe_error_interrupt(4298): EA[0:0]_PPE 1 Errors sync xtxn error xss_event_handler(1071): EA[0:0]_PPE 2.xss[0] ADDR Error. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series: All versions prior to 15.1R7-S13; 19.1 versions prior to 19.1R3-S9; 19.2 versions prior to 19.2R3-S6; 19.3 versions prior to 19.3R3-S6; 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S7, 19.4R3-S8; 20.1 version 20.1R1 and later versions; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S5; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S5; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3-S2; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R3; 21.3 versions prior to 21.3R2.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-664 Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Junos OSJuniper Networks
  • before 15.1R7-S13Affected
  • 19.1 to before 19.1R3-S9Affected
  • 19.2 to before 19.2R3-S6Affected
  • 19.3 to before 19.3R3-S6Affected
  • 19.4 to before 19.4R2-S7, 19.4R3-S8Affected
  • 20.1R1 to before 20.1*Affected
  • 20.2 to before 20.2R3-S5Affected
  • 20.3 to before 20.3R3-S5Affected
  • 20.4 to before 20.4R3-S2Affected
  • 21.1 to before 21.1R3Affected
  • 21.2 to before 21.2R3Affected
  • 21.3 to before 21.3R2Affected

References

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