CVE-2010-4669

The 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.

Affected products

Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Xp

Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

All versions

Microsoft Windows 7

All versions

Microsoft Windows Server 2008

All versions

Microsoft Windows Vista

All versions

Microsoft Windows Xp

All versions

Fix

Available

CVSS 2.0

7.8 HIGH

EPSS

29.1% (98th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-399

NVD status

Modified

Published

2011-01-07