Vulnerabilities > CVE-2011-2393 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.8 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
low complexity
freebsd
netbsd
CWE-399

Summary

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and device hang) by sending many Router Advertisement (RA) messages with different source addresses, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2010-4670.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Freebsd
1
OS
Netbsd
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)