CVE-2016-4921

HIGH

Juniper Junos OS - Denial of Service via Crafted IPv6 Traffic

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

By flooding a Juniper Networks router running Junos OS with specially crafted IPv6 traffic, all available resources can be consumed, leading to the inability to store next hop information for legitimate traffic. In extreme cases, the crafted IPv6 traffic may result in a total resource exhaustion and kernel panic. The issue is triggered by traffic destined to the router. Transit traffic does not trigger the vulnerability. This issue only affects devices with IPv6 enabled and configured. Devices not configured to process IPv6 traffic are unaffected by this vulnerability. This issue was found during internal product security testing. Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS 11.4 prior to 11.4R13-S3; 12.3 prior to 12.3R3-S4; 12.3X48 prior to 12.3X48-D30; 13.3 prior to 13.3R10, 13.3R4-S11; 14.1 prior to 14.1R2-S8, 14.1R4-S12, 14.1R8; 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D28, 14.1X53-D40; 14.1X55 prior to 14.1X55-D35; 14.2 prior to 14.2R3-S10, 14.2R4-S7, 14.2R6; 15.1 prior to 15.1F2-S5, 15.1F5-S2, 15.1F6, 15.1R3; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D40; 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D57, 15.1X53-D70.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10762
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037014
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93532

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0135
EPSS Percentile 80.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (9)
juniper/junos 11.4 (13 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 11.4r13 s2
juniper/junos 12.3 (4 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 12.3x48 d10 (3 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 13.3 (12 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 14.1 (5 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 14.1x53 d15 (6 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 14.1x55 (2 CPE variants)
juniper/junos 14.2 r1 (4 CPE variants)
Published Oct 13, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026