Junos OS: SRX5000 Series: Receipt of a specific malformed packet will cause a flowd crash
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An Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input vulnerability in the packet forwarding engine (pfe) Juniper Networks Junos OS on SRX5000 Series allows an unauthenticated, network based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (Dos). When a non-clustered SRX5000 device receives a specifically malformed packet this will cause a flowd crash and restart. This issue affects Junos OS: * 22.1 releases 22.1R1 and later before 22.2R3-S5, * 22.3 releases before 22.3R3-S4, * 22.4 releases before 22.4R3-S4, * 23.2 releases before 23.2R2-S2, * 23.4 releases before 23.4R2-S1, * 24.2 releases before 24.2R1-S1, 24.2R2. Please note that the PR does indicate that earlier versions have been fixed as well, but these won't be adversely impacted by this.
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