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CVE-2010-4669

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 29.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2011-01-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and system hang) by sending many Router Advertisement (RA) messages with different source addresses, as demonstrated by the flood_router6 program in the thc-ipv6 package.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 7: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: all versions
• Microsoft Windows Vista: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html
• http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3
• http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64583
• http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html
• http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp3-audio-only/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp3
• http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-3957-en-ipv6_insecurities.mp4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45760
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00yjWB6gGy8
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64583

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