CVE-2024-39557

MEDIUM

Juniper Junos OS Evolved DoS via L2ALD Memory Leak

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the Layer 2 Address Learning Daemon (l2ald) of Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause a memory leak, eventually exhausting all system memory, leading to a system crash and Denial of Service (DoS). Certain MAC table updates cause a small amount of memory to leak.  Once memory utilization reaches its limit, the issue will result in a system crash and restart. To identify the issue, execute the CLI command: user@device> show platform application-info allocations app l2ald-agent EVL Object Allocation Statistics: Node   Application     Context Name                               Live   Allocs   Fails     Guids re0   l2ald-agent               net::juniper::rtnh::L2Rtinfo       1069096 1069302   0         1069302 re0   l2ald-agent               net::juniper::rtnh::NHOpaqueTlv     114     195       0         195 This issue affects Junos OS Evolved: * All versions before 21.4R3-S8-EVO, * from 22.2-EVO before 22.2R3-S4-EVO, * from 22.3-EVO before 22.3R3-S3-EVO, * from 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-EVO, * from 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-EVO.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
https://supportportal.juniper.net/JSA83017

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 38.5%
Attack Vector ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (6)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 21.4 (15 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 22.2 (11 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 22.3 (10 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 22.4 (7 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved 23.2 (4 CPE variants)
juniper/junos_os_evolved < 21.4
Published Jul 10, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026