CVE-2022-22170

Summary

CVECVE-2022-22170
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-01-19 01:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-01-26 18:17:00 UTC
DescriptionA Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated networked attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending specific packets over VXLAN which cause heap memory to leak and on exhaustion the PFE to reset. The heap memory utilization can be monitored with the command: user@host> show chassis fpc This issue affects: Juniper Networks Junos OS 19.4 versions prior to 19.4R2-S6, 19.4R3-S6; 20.1 versions prior to 20.1R3-S2; 20.2 versions prior to 20.2R3-S3; 20.3 versions prior to 20.3R3-S1; 20.4 versions prior to 20.4R3; 21.1 versions prior to 21.1R3; 21.2 versions prior to 21.2R2. This issue does not affect versions of Junos OS prior to 19.4R1.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-772

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r1-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r1-s2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r1-s3 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r1-s4 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r2-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r2-s2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r2-s3 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r2-s4 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r2-s5 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r3 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r3-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r3-s2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r3-s3 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r3-s4 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r3-s5 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 19.4 r3-s6 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.1 r1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.1 r1-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.1 r1-s2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.1 r1-s3 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.1 r1-s4 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.1 r2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.1 r2-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.1 r2-s2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.1 r3 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.1 r3-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.1 r3-s2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.2 r1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.2 r1-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.2 r1-s2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.2 r1-s3 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.2 r2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.2 r2-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.2 r2-s2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.2 r2-s3 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.2 r3 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.2 r3-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.2 r3-s2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.3 r1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.3 r1-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.3 r2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.3 r2-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.3 r3 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.3 r3-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.4 r1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.4 r1-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.4 r2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.4 r2-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.4 r2-s2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 20.4 r3 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 21.1 r1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 21.1 r1-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 21.1 r2 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 21.1 r2-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 21.2 r1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 21.2 r1-s1 All All
Operating System Juniper Junos 21.3 r1 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2022-01 Security Bulletin: Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: Specific packets over VXLAN cause memory leak and/or FPC reset (CVE-2022-22170, CVE-2022-22171) - Juniper Networks CONFIRM kb.juniper.net
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 43925 Juniper Network Operating System (Junos OS) Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability (JSA11277)

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