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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:32:12.106Z

Reserved: 2011-06-05T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2011-2393

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2012-02-02T17:55:00.910

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2011-2393

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