# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-21587"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-01-12T00:51:30.990Z"
updatedAt: "2025-06-03T14:05:59.834Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-21587"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-21587.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-21587"
title: "Junos OS: MX Series: Memory leak in bbe-smgd process if BFD liveness detection for DHCP subscribers is enabled"
summary: "\nAn Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the broadband edge subscriber management daemon (bbe-smgd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows an attacker directly connected to the vulnerable system who repeatedly flaps DHCP subscriber sessions to cause a slow memory leak, ultimately leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). Memory can only be recovered by manually restarting bbe-smgd.\n\nThis issue only occurs if BFD liveness detection for DHCP subscribers is enabled. Systems without BFD liveness detection enabled are not vulnerable to this issue.\n\nIndication of the issue can be observed by periodically executing the 'show system processes extensive' command, which will indicate an increase in memory allocation for bbe-smgd. A small amount of memory is leaked every time a DHCP subscriber logs in, which will become visible over time, ultimately leading to memory starvation.\n\nuser@junos\u003e show system processes extensive | match bbe-smgd\n13071 root 24 0 415M 201M select 0 0:41 7.28% bbe-smgd{bbe-smgd}\n13071 root 20 0 415M 201M select 1 0:04 0.00% bbe-smgd{bbe-smgd}\n...\nuser@junos\u003e show system processes extensive | match bbe-smgd\n13071 root 20 0 420M 208M select 0 4:33 0.10% bbe-smgd{bbe-smgd}\n13071 root 20 0 420M 208M select 0 0:12 0.00% bbe-smgd{bbe-smgd}\n...\nThis issue affects Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series:\n\n\n\n  *  All versions earlier than 20.4R3-S9;\n  *  21.2 versions earlier than 21.2R3-S7;\n  *  21.3 versions earlier than 21.3R3-S5;\n  *  21.4 versions earlier than 21.4R3-S5;\n  *  22.1 versions earlier than 22.1R3-S4;\n  *  22.2 versions earlier than 22.2R3-S3;\n  *  22.3 versions earlier than 22.3R3-S2;\n  *  22.4 versions earlier than 22.4R2-S2, 22.4R3;\n  *  23.2 versions earlier than 23.2R1-S1, 23.2R2.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"20.4R3-S9"},{"version":"21.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"21.2R3-S7"},{"version":"21.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"21.3R3-S5"},{"version":"21.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"21.4R3-S5"},{"version":"22.1","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.1R3-S4"},{"version":"22.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.2R3-S3"},{"version":"22.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.3R3-S2"},{"version":"22.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"22.4R2-S2, 22.4R3"},{"version":"23.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"23.2R1-S1, 23.2R2"}],"vendor":"Juniper Networks","product":"Junos OS","platforms":["MX Series"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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