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CVE-2010-4669
Published: Jan 7, 2011
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
45760
vdb-entry
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ms-win-nd-protocol-dos(64583)
vdb-entry
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http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html
x_refsource_MISC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8
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