Junos OS has been put through the wringer since that nasty backdoor scandal
Juniper has fired off fixes for eight security vulnerabilities. The company has been running Junos OS through the security mill since late last year, when its now-notorious backdoor hit the headlines. Junos OS systems running either generic routing encapsulation (GRE) or IP-in-IP (IPIP) tunnels are vulnerable to a kernel crash triggered by a crafted ICMP packet. The resulting denial of service attack, CVE-2016-1277, is rated high, and present in a bunch of Junos OS revisions – three in the ver...