Neighbor Discovery Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

Neighbor Discovery Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2016-1409 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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