CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4669
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-01-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and system hang) by sending many Router Advertisement (RA) messages with different source addresses, as demonstrated by the flood_router6 program in the thc-ipv6 package.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows 2003 server
• microsoft windows 7
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft windows vista
• microsoft windows xp
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html Exploit
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3 Exploit
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4 mirror.fem-net.de
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64583 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html Exploit
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3 Exploit
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4 mirror.fem-net.de
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8 Exploit
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64583 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com