CVE-2021-22161 (GCVE-0-2021-22161)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-02-07 22:56 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:37
VLAI
Summary
In OpenWrt 19.07.x before 19.07.7, when IPv6 is used, a routing loop can occur that generates excessive network traffic between an affected device and its upstream ISP's router. This occurs when a link prefix route points to a point-to-point link, a destination IPv6 address belongs to the prefix and is not a local IPv6 address, and a router advertisement is received with at least one global unique IPv6 prefix for which the on-link flag is set. This affects the netifd and odhcp6c packages.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://openwrt.org/advisory/2021-02-02-1 x_refsource_CONFIRM
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