Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-0343 - Remote Denial Of Service vulnerability in OpenBSD ICMP6 Echo Request

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
openbsd

Summary

OpenBSD before 20070116 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via certain IPv6 ICMP (aka ICMP6) echo request packets.