CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4671
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-400
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.
Affected configurations
• cisco ios (< 15.0\(1\)xa5)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_0/15_0x/15_01_XA/rn800xa.pdf Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8 Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64589 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_0/15_0x/15_01_XA/rn800xa.pdf Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8 Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64589 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry