CVE-2010-4669 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3 http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64583