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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2024-21613 EUVD-2024-19261GHSA-54jf-p4cr-5xj6

Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: A link flap causes patroot memory leak which leads to rpd crash

Published Jan 12, 2024 · Updated Jun 17, 2025 · Assigned by juniper

Description

A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Routing Protocol Daemon (RPD) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to cause an rpd crash, leading to Denial of Service (DoS).

On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved platforms, when traffic engineering is enabled for OSPF or ISIS, and a link flaps, a patroot memory leak is observed. This memory leak, over time, will lead to an rpd crash and restart.

The memory usage can be monitored using the below command.

user@host> show task memory detail | match patroot
This issue affects:

Juniper Networks Junos OS

* All versions earlier than 21.2R3-S3;
* 21.3 versions earlier than 21.3R3-S5;
* 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S3;
* 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3;
* 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3.

Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved

* All versions earlier than 21.3R3-S5-EVO;
* 21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-EVO;
* 22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3-EVO;
* 22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3-EVO.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Juniper Networks Junos OS < 21.2R3-S3, 21.3 – < 21.3R3-S5, 21.4 – < 21.4R3-S3, 22.1 – < 22.1R3, 22.2 – < 22.2R3 21.2R3-S3
Juniper Networks Junos OS Evolved < 21.3R3-S5-EVO, 21.4 – < 21.4R3-EVO, 22.1 – < 22.1R3-EVO, 22.2 – < 22.2R3-EVO 21.3R3-S5-EVO

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