National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2464
Original release date:09/11/2008
Last revised:09/11/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The mld_input function in sys/netinet6/mld6.c in the kernel in NetBSD 4.0, FreeBSD, and KAME, when INET6 is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and panic) via a malformed ICMPv6 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) query with a certain Maximum Response Delay value.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#817940
Name: VU#817940
External Source: BID
Name: 31026
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c.diff?r1=1.34;r2=1.35;f=h
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020822
External Source: NETBSD
Name: NetBSD-SA2008-011
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c.diff?r1=1.46&r2=1.47&f=h
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c
External Source: MISC
Name: http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-netbsd.html