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.
2011-01-07T12:00:49.657
2025-04-11T00:51:21.963
Deferred
CVSSv2: 7.8 (HIGH)
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
10.0
6.9
Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
---|---|---|---|---|
Operating System | microsoft | windows_2003_server | * | Yes |
Operating System | microsoft | windows_7 | * | Yes |
Operating System | microsoft | windows_server_2008 | - | Yes |
Operating System | microsoft | windows_vista | * | Yes |
Operating System | microsoft | windows_xp | * | Yes |