The vulnerability of the smgd subscriber management demon on Juniper Networks’ Junos OS-based MX router devices allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the smgd subscriber management daemon for Juniper Networks’ Junos OS routers in the MX series operating systems is related to improper handling of exceptions. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service interruptions remotely...

Design/Logic Flaw

Receipt of a malformed packet on MX Series devices with dynamic vlan configuration can trigger an uncontrolled recursion loop in the Broadband Edge subscriber management daemon bbe-smgd, and lead to high CPU usage and a crash of the bbe-smgd service. Repeated receipt of the same packet can result...