Service interruption via Neighbor Solicitation flooding
Published Feb 20, 2020 · Updated Aug 6, 2024
Denial of service in Microsoft Windows 7 and earlier allows remote attackers to interrupt systems with an ICMPv6 Neighbor Solicitation flood. The IPv6 stack processes Neighbor Solicitation messages until a sustained flood exhausts resources; the public record identifies no narrower faulty routine or resource. No authentication or user interaction is required, but the target must process attacker-supplied IPv6 traffic, and the reported consequence is limited to service interruption.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Microsoft Windows 7 and earlier allows remote attackers to interrupt systems with an ICMPv6 Neighbor Solicitation flood. The IPv6 stack processes Neighbor Solicitation messages until a sustained flood exhausts resources; the public record identifies no narrower faulty routine or resource. No authentication or user interaction is required, but the target must process attacker-supplied IPv6 traffic, and the reported consequence is limited to service interruption.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2012-5362
- Published
- Feb 20, 2020
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-400, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 20, 2020CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 6, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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