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Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2017-10602

High
7/10

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability in Junos OS CLI may allow a local authenticated user with read only privileges and access to Junos CLI, to execute code with root privileges. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS: 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D46 on EX2200/VC, EX3200, EX3300/VC, EX4200, EX4300, EX4550/VC, EX4600, EX6200, EX8200/VC (XRE), QFX3500, QFX3600, QFX5100; 14.1X53 versions prior to 14.1X53-D130 on QFabric System; 14.2 versions prior to 14.2R4-S9, 14.2R6; 15.1 versions prior to 15.1F5, 15.1R3; 15.1X49 versions prior to 15.1X49-D40 on SRX Series; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D47 on NFX150, NFX250; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D65 on QFX10000 Series; 15.1X53 versions prior to 15.1X53-D233 on QFX5110, QFX5200.

  • HIGH
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published