Junos RPD Denial of Service Vulnerability

Summary
DoS of RPD routing process
Impact
The RPD routing process may be caused to crash and restart ending in a denial of service condition.
Solution
New builds of Junos OS software are available from Juniper.
Insight
Receipt of a malformed PIM packet may cause the RPD routing process to crash and restart. All PIM routers that are configured to use Auto-RP for automatic distribution of group-to-RP mappings are impacted. If Auto-RP is not used in the network, there is no impact.
Affected
Junos OS 11.4, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Detection
Check the OS build.
References

Updated on 2015-03-25