Resource exhaustion in Cisco Ios

CVE-2010-4671

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS before 15.0(1)XA5 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 CSCti33534.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.036 (88.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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