CVE-2008-2476
The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation in (1) FreeBSD 6.3 through 7.1, (2) OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3, (3) NetBSD, (4) Force10…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
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- certcc
Description
The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation in (1) FreeBSD 6.3 through 7.1, (2) OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3, (3) NetBSD, (4) Force10 FTOS before E7.7.1.1, (5) Juniper JUNOS, and (6) Wind River VxWorks 5.x through 6.4 does not validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of connectivity) or read private network traffic via a spoofed message that modifies the Forward Information Base (FIB).
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.4% · top 5.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (23)
- 32406 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- multiple-vendors-ndp-dos(45601) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3467 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [4.2] 015: SECURITY FIX: October 2, 2008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENBSDx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2751 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1021109 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1020968 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 32133 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- VU#472363 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-7H2RY7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32116 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1021132 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://www.juniper.net/alerts/viewalert.jsp?actionBtn=Search&txtAlertNumber=PSN-2008-09-036&viewMode=view (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2750 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2752 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31529 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/MAPG-7H2S68 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FreeBSD-SA-08:10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FREEBSDx_transferred
- [4.3] 006: SECURITY FIX: October 2, 2008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_OPENBSDx_transferred
- 32112 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5670 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 32117 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0633 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-2471 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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