CVE-2008-2476
highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.074 · 94 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation in (1) FreeBSD 6.3 through 7.1, (2) OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3, (3) NetBSD, (4) Force10 FTOS before E7.7.1.1, (5) Juniper JUNOS, and (6) Wind River VxWorks 5.x through 6.4 does not validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of connectivity) or read private network traffic via a spoofed message that modifies the Forward Information Base (FIB).
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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affected products (11)
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references (46)
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/32112enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32116enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32117enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32133enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32406enisa_euvd
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-08:10.nd6.ascenisa_euvd
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020968enisa_euvd
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3467enisa_euvd
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