Security flaw in Juniper's JunOS can be used to crash routers

By Juha Saarinen on Feb 1, 2013 12:20PM

Crafted packets roger routers.

A serious flaw in the operating system running Juniper routers can make them crash and reboot, the network equipment vendor has advised. By sending a specially crafted transmission control protocol (TCP) packet to a listening port on a Juniper Routing Engine, it's possible to make the kernel in ...

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