CVE-2016-1409

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS XE 2.1 through 3.17S, IOS XR 2.0.0 through 5.3.2, and NX-OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (packet-processing outage) via crafted ND messages, aka Bug ID CSCuz66542, as exploited in the wild in May 2016.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - psirt@cisco.com

Published

2016-05-29

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Ios (Cisco)
• Ios Xe (Cisco)
• Ios Xr (Cisco)
• Nx-os (Cisco)

References

• http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160525-ipv6
• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160824-01-ipv6-en
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90872
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035962
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035963
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035964
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035965
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036651