CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2189
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-12-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The ICMPv6 implementation on the Apple Time Capsule, AirPort Extreme Base Station, and AirPort Express Base Station with firmware before 7.5.2 does not limit the rate of (1) Router Advertisement and (2) Neighbor Discovery packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and device restart) by sending many packets.
Affected configurations
• apple airport express base station firmware (<= 7.4.2)
• apple airport express base station firmware 3.84
• apple airport express base station firmware 4.0.9
• apple airport express base station firmware 6.1
• apple airport express base station firmware 6.3
• apple airport express base station firmware 7.3.2
• apple airport express base station firmware 7.4.1
• apple airport extreme base station firmware 5.5
• apple airport extreme base station firmware 5.7
• apple airport express
• apple airport extreme
• apple time capsule
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Dec/msg00001.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4298 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024907 www.securitytracker.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Dec/msg00001.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4298 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024907 www.securitytracker.com