Published: 2007-12-14,
Last Updated: 2007-12-14 02:09:56 UTC
by William Stearns (Version: 2)

Juniper Networks has put out an important advisory related to their routers. It appears that malformed BGP packets may induce interface flapping.

JUNOS releases from 7.3 to 8.4 are vulnerable to crafted IPV6 messages that may crash the kernel. Versions 8.5R1 and above have this memory issue fixed.

If you're a registered user, please see:
https://www.juniper.net/alerts/viewalert.js...p;viewMode=view

There's a discussion about the problem at:
https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/juniper-n...ber/009296.html

Because this crash can be remotely triggered, this issue should be addressed as soon as is practical.