CVE-2016-1256

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Published 2016-01-15 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

5.3

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Juniper Junos OS before 12.1X44-D55, 12.1X46 before 12.1X46-D40, 12.1X47 before 12.1X47-D25, 12.3 before 12.3R10, 12.3X48 before 12.3X48-D20, 13.2 before 13.2R8, 13.2X51 before 13.2X51-D40, 13.3 before 13.3R7, 14.1 before 14.1R5, 14.1X53 before 14.1X53-D18 or 14.1X53-D30, 14.1X55 before 14.1X55-D25, 14.2 before 14.2R4, 15.1 before 15.1R2, and 15.1X49 before 15.1X49-D10 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed IGMPv3 packet, aka a "multicast denial of service."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

63%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.