Juniper Junos MX Series BBE Routers jpppd Remote DoS (JSA10665)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80953

Synopsis

The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.

Description

According to its self-reported version number, the remote Juniper Junos device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the Juniper PPP daemon (jpppd). A remote attacker can exploit this issue by sending a specially crafted PAP Authenticate-Request after successful negotiation of the PPPoE Discovery and LCP phase, resulting in the PPP daemon crashing.

Note that this issue only affects MX series routers deployed as a broadband edge (BBE) router.

Solution

Apply the relevant Junos software release or workaround referenced in Juniper advisory JSA10665.

See Also

https://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10665

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80953

File Name: juniper_jsa10665.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: combined

Published: 1/23/2015

Updated: 7/12/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:juniper:junos

Required KB Items: Host/Juniper/model, Host/Juniper/JUNOS/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/14/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-6382

BID: 72070

JSA: JSA10665