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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2016-1409 – Cisco Products IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Crafted Packet Vulnerability

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

The vulnerability is due to insufficient processing logic for crafted IPv6 packets that are sent to an affected device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) packets to an affected device for processing. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause the device to stop processing IPv6 traffic, leading to a DoS condition on the device.

Impact

Denial of Service

Affected Vendors

Cisco

Remediation

Please see vendor’s advisory for more details and for the list of affected products.

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160525-ipv6

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