CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-2242

Published: Apr 25, 2007 | Modified: Oct 16, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

The IPv6 protocol allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted IPv6 type 0 route headers (IPV6_RTHDR_TYPE_0) that create network amplification between two routers.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openbsd Openbsd 3.9 (including) 3.9 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 4.0 (including) 4.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 *
Linux-source-2.6.15 Ubuntu dapper *
Linux-source-2.6.17 Ubuntu edgy *

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