CVE-2010-4671

Published Jan 7, 2011

Last updated 5 years ago

Overview

Description: The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS before 15.0(1)XA5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and device hang) by sending many Router Advertisement (RA) messages with different source addresses, as demonstrated by the flood_router6 program in the thc-ipv6 package, aka Bug ID CSCti33534.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.8
Impact score: 6.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-400

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:cisco:ios:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "E89F1CEC-387B-4E0E-8ECD-AA6BF1518CEA",
            "versionEndExcluding": "15.0\\(1\\)xa5"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

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