CVE-2016-1409

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    CVE-2016-1409

    Published: 29 May 2016Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: , http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036651, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90872, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035963, http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160824-01-ipv6-en, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035962, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035964, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035965, http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160525-ipv6

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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