Vulnerability in Cisco 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance
CVE-2010-4670
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.2(3) and earlier, and Cisco PIX Security Appliances devices, 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, as demonstrated by the flood_router6 program in the thc-ipv6 package, aka Bug ID CSCti24526.
EPSS: 0.032 (86.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Cisco 5500_series_adaptive_security_appliance
- Cisco Adaptive_security_appliance_software — versions 7.0\(4\), 7.1\(2.27\), 7.1\(2.5\)
- Cisco Asa_5500
- Cisco Pix_security_appliance
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)