CVE-2011-2393

FreeBSD and NetBSD - Denial of Service via IPv6 Router Advertisement Flooding

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems 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, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2010-4670.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Apr/86

Scores

EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 63.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (2)
freebsd/freebsd
netbsd/netbsd
Published Feb 02, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026