CVE-2011-2393

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-2393
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-02-02 17:55:00 UTC
Updated2012-02-03 05:00:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd All All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd All All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd All All All All
Operating System Netbsd Netbsd All All All All

References

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www.mh-sec.de/downloads/mh-RA_flooding_CVE-2010-multiple.txt MISC www.mh-sec.de
Full Disclosure: ICMPv6 Router Announcement flooding denial of service affecting multiple systems FULLDISC seclists.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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