Junos OS: MX Series, SRX Series: Processing of specific SIP INVITE messages by the SIP ALG will lead to an FPC crash

An Improper Handling of Additional Special Element vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series with MS-MPC, MS-MIC and SPC3, and SRX Series, allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS).

If the SIP ALG processes specifically formatted SIP invites, a memory corruption will occur which will lead to a crash of the FPC processing these packets. Although the system will automatically recover with the restart of the FPC, subsequent SIP invites will cause the crash again and lead to a sustained DoS.

This issue affects Junos OS on MX Series and SRX Series:

• all versions before 21.2R3-S9,
• 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S10,
• 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S6,
• 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S5,
• 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S3,
• 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S3,
• 24.2 versions before 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2.