Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-0616 - Race Condition vulnerability in Juniper Junos
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Juniper Junos 10.4 before 10.4R16, 11.4 before 11.4R10, 12.1R before 12.1R8-S2, 12.1X44 before 12.1X44-D30, 12.1X45 before 12.1X45-D20, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D10, 12.2 before 12.2R7, 12.3 before 12.3R4-S2, 13.1 before 13.1R3-S1, 13.2 before 13.2R2, and 13.3 before 13.3R1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (rdp crash) via a large BGP UPDATE message which immediately triggers a withdraw message to be sent, as demonstrated by a long AS_PATH and a large number of BGP Communities.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 11 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Leveraging Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
- Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.
Nessus
| NASL family | Junos Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | JUNIPER_JSA10609.NASL |
| description | According to its self-reported version number, the remote Juniper Junos device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability. This issue exists in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) when handling oversized BGP UPDATE messages. Note that this issue only affects devices with BGP enabled. |
| last seen | 2020-03-18 |
| modified | 2014-01-16 |
| plugin id | 71998 |
| published | 2014-01-16 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/71998 |
| title | Juniper Junos Oversized BGP UPDATE Remote DoS (JSA10609) |