CVE-2011-2393

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Feb 2, 2012
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jun 5, 2011

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.mh-sec.de/downloads/mh-RA_flooding_CVE-2010-multiple.txt
20110405 ICMPv6 Router Announcement flooding denial of service affecting multiple systemsmailing-list

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