CVE-2010-4670 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2010-4670

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack...

Vulnerability Description

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack on Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) 5500 series devices with software 8.2(3) and earlier, and Cisco PIX Security Appliances devices, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and device hang) by sending many Router Advertisement (RA) messages with different source addresses, as demonstrated by the flood_router6 program in the thc-ipv6 package, aka Bug ID CSCti24526.

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

adaptive security appliance software, 5500 series adaptive security appliance, asa 5500, pix security appliance
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 7.0, 7.0\(0\), 7.0\(2\), 7.0\(4\), 7.0\(5\), 7.0\(5.2\), 7.0\(6.7\), 7.0.1, 7.0.1.4, 7.0.2, 7.0.4, 7.0.4.3, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.1, 7.1\(2\), 7.1\(2.5\), 7.1\(2.27\), 7.1\(2.48\), 7.1\(2.49\), 7.1\(5\), 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.2, 7.2\(1\), 7.2\(1.22\), 7.2\(2\), 7.2\(2.5\), 7.2\(2.7\), 7.2\(2.8\), 7.2\(2.10\), 7.2\(2.14\), 7.2\(2.15\), 7.2\(2.16\), 7.2\(2.17\), 7.2\(2.18\), 7.2\(2.19\), 7.2\(2.48\), 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 8.0, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 8.2\(1\), 8.2\(2\), 8.2.1, 8.2.2

Timeline

Official Publish: January 7th, 2011
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.