CVE-2010-4669
microsoft: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
- EPSS
- 29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-399
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:windows_2003_server
- microsoft:windows_7
- microsoft:windows_server_2008
- microsoft:windows_vista
- microsoft:windows_xp
References
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3
- http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8