CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-2393

7.8 HIGH Published 2012-02-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2012-02-02
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 FreeBSD, NetBSD, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems 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, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2010-4670.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd • netbsd netbsd

Weakness · not in database (1)

CWE-399

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Apr/86 seclists.org
http://www.mh-sec.de/downloads/mh-RA_flooding_CVE-2010-multiple.txt www.mh-sec.de
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Apr/86 seclists.org
http://www.mh-sec.de/downloads/mh-RA_flooding_CVE-2010-multiple.txt www.mh-sec.de

CVE-2011-2393

Description

Affected configurations

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References