CVE-2010-4669

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Summary

CVECVE-2010-4669
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-01-07 12:00:49 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.8 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server All All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 All All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Server 2008 - All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Vista All All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
27C3 Recent advances in IPv6 insecurities - vanHauser (2/4) - YouTube af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.youtube.com Exploit
27C3: Recent advances in IPv6 insecurities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 events.ccc.de Exploit
mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mirror.fem-net.de
mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mirror.fem-net.de Exploit
Multiple Vendors IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Router Advertisement Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
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