A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the routing process daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an attacker to send a malformed BGP Path attribute update which allocates memory used to log the bad path attribute. This memory is not properly freed in all circumstances, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).
Consumed memory can be freed by manually restarting Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd).
Memory utilization could be monitored by: 
user@host> show system memory or show system monitor memory status
This issue affects:
Junos OS:   *  All versions before 21.2R3-S8, 
  *  from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S8,
  *  from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4, 
  *  from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3, 
  *  from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S3,
  *  from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S1, 
  *  from 23.4 before 23.4R1-S2, 23.4R2.
Junos OS Evolved:
  *  All versions before 21.2R3-S8-EVO, 
  *  from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S8-EVO,
  *  from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S4-EVO, 
  *  from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3-EVO, 
  *  from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S3-EVO,
  *  from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S1-EVO, 
  *  from 23.4 before 23.4R1-S2-EVO, 23.4R2-EVO.
                
            References
                    | Link | Resource | 
|---|---|
| https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA83011 | Vendor Advisory | 
| https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA83011 | Vendor Advisory | 
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Information
                Published : 2024-07-11 17:15
Updated : 2024-11-21 09:27
NVD link : CVE-2024-39549
Mitre link : CVE-2024-39549
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-39549
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Products Affected
                juniper
- junos
- junos_os_evolved
CWE
                
                    
                        
                        CWE-401
                        
            Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
