CVE-2010-4671

N/A Unknown
Published: January 07, 2011 Modified: April 29, 2026
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Description

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_0/15_0x/15_01_XA/rn800xa.pdf
Source: cve@mitre.org
Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64589
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_0/15_0x/15_01_XA/rn800xa.pdf
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64589
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

14 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
3.6%
88th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

Affected Vendors

cisco

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