Microsoft Haven’t Fixed Year Old IPv6 DoS Vulnerability in Windows

CVE-2010-4669 describes a vulnerability in the Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. Using a simple tool like flood_router6 from the thc-ipv6 package a remote attacker can cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and system hang) by […]