CVE-2008-4404 Information

Description

The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation on IBM zSeries servers does not validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery messages which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of connectivity) or read private network traffic via a spoofed message that modifies the Forward Information Base (FIB) a related issue to CVE-2008-2476.

Reference

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/472363 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-7H2RZ8