Vulnerabilities > CVE-2010-4669 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Microsoft products

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

• CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

References