CVE-2004-0468

CVE-2004-0468 describes a memory leak in Juniper’s JUNOS Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) that can be exploited remotely by IPv6 packets to cause memory exhaustion and router reboot (DoS). OpenVAS notes a DoS vulnerability in Juniper Junos OS DoS vulnerability (CVE-2004-0468) tied to memory leakage...

Juniper JUNOS Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) IPv6 memory leak

Overview The Juniper JUNOS Packet Forwarding Engine PFE leaks memory when certain IPv6 packets are submitted for processing. If an attacker submits multiple packets to a vulnerable router running IPv6-enabled PFE, the router can be repeatedly rebooted, essentially creating a denial of service for...