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CVE-2010-4671 (GCVE-0-2010-4671)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-07 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:51
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2010-12-27 00:00
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