CVE-2009-0418 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2009-0418

The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation in HP HP-UX...

Vulnerability Description

The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation in HP HP-UX B.11.11, B.11.23, and B.11.31 does not validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of connectivity), read private network traffic, and possibly execute arbitrary code via a spoofed message that modifies the Forward Information Base (FIB), a related issue to CVE-2008-2476.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

hp-ux
Vulnerable Versions:
b.11.11, b.11.23, b.11.31

Timeline

Official Publish: February 4th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.