CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-1409

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS XE, IOS XR, and NX-OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted ND messages.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to disrupt system operations, potentially leading to service availability interruptions.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the software to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor network traffic for potential attacks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Cisco IOS XE 2.1 through 3.17S, IOS XR 2.0.0 through 5.3.2, and NX-OS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (packet-processing outage) via crafted ND messages, aka Bug ID CSCuz66542, as exploited in the wild in May 2016.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS