CVE-2022-22231

An Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). On SRX Series if Unified Threat Management (UTM) Enhanced Content Filtering (CF) and AntiVirus (AV) are enabled together and the system processes specific valid transit traffic the Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE) will crash and restart. This issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS 21.4 versions prior to 21.4R1-S2, 21.4R2 on SRX Series. This issue does not affect Juniper Networks Junos OS versions prior to 21.4R1.

Link	Resource
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA69885	Vendor Advisory

Configuration 1

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Published : 2022-10-18 03:15

Updated : 2022-10-21 04:57

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NVD link : CVE-2022-22231

Mitre link : CVE-2022-22231

Juniper

Srx5800

CWE-476