CVE-2008-4404

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation on IBM zSeries servers does not validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of connectivity) or read private network traffic via a spoofed message that modifies the Forward Information Base (FIB), a related issue to CVE-2008-2476.

Affected products

IBM Zseries: all versions

References

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/472363
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-7H2RZ8
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/472363
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-7H2RZ8

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