The Juniper Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) router must be configured to limit the amount of source-active messages it accepts on per-peer basis.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
To reduce any risk of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack from a rogue or misconfigured MSDP router, the router must be configured to limit the number of source-active messages it accepts from each peer.
- ID
- SV-217097r604135_rule
- Version
- JUNI-RT-000930
- Severity
- Low
- References
- Updated
Remediation Templates
A Manual Procedure
Configure the router to limit the amount of source-active messages it accepts from each peer.
[edit protocols msdp group AS25 peer x.x.x.x]
set active-source-limit maximum nnn