CVE-2011-2393
FreeBSD and NetBSD - Denial of Service via IPv6 Router Advertisement Flooding
Title source: llmDescription
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
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://www.mh-sec.de/downloads/mh-RA_flooding_CVE-2010-multiple.txt
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