CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4404

10.0 HIGH Published 2008-10-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-10-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation on IBM zSeries servers does not validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of connectivity) or read private network traffic via a spoofed message that modifies the Forward Information Base (FIB), a related issue to CVE-2008-2476.

Affected configurations

• ibm zseries

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References