CVE-2010-4671

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS before 15.0(1)XA5 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, as demonstrated by the flood_router6 program in the thc-ipv6 package, aka Bug ID CSCti33534.

Date published : 2011-01-07

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760

http://www.ciscosystems.com/en/US/docs/ios/15_0/15_0x/15_01_XA/rn800xa.pdf