CVE-2010-4671
Cisco IOS < 15.0(1)XA5 - Denial of Service via IPv6 Router Advertisement Flood
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (7)
Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64589
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4
Broken Link x_refsource_confirm
http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_0/15_0x/15_01_XA/rn800xa.pdf
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8
Scores
EPSS
0.0362
EPSS Percentile
88.1%
Details
CWE
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (1)
cisco/ios
< 15.0\(1\)xa5
Published
Jan 07, 2011
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026