CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2016-1276 — Juniper Junos security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.1

Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X46-D50, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D23, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D25, and 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D40 on a High-End SRX-Series chassis system with one or more Application Layer Gateways (ALGs) enabled allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption, fab link failure, or flip-flop failovers) via vectors related to in-transit traffic matching ALG rules.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.1 (2.0)
Published
2016-08-05
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Affected products

  • juniper / junos / 12.1x46
  • juniper / junos / 12.1x47

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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