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FreeBSD IPv6 Type 0 Route Headers Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA25033
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Release Date:
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2007-04-30
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Popularity:
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6,702 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | FreeBSD 5.x
FreeBSD 6.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-2242
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Description:
A security issue has been reported in FreeBSD, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The security issue is caused due to an error within the processing of packets with IPv6 type 0 route headers. This can be exploited to cause a DoS due to high network traffic by sending specially crafted IPv6 packets to vulnerable systems.
Solution:
Update FreeBSD or apply patches.
2007-04-24 11:42:42 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.2-STABLE)
2007-04-26 23:42:23 UTC (RELENG_6_2, 6.2-RELEASE-p4)
2007-04-26 23:41:59 UTC (RELENG_6_1, 6.1-RELEASE-p16)
2007-04-24 11:44:23 UTC (RELENG_5, 5.5-STABLE)
2007-04-26 23:41:27 UTC (RELENG_5_5, 5.5-RELEASE-p12)
Patches (FreeBSD 5.5, 6.1, and 6.2):
http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-07:03/ipv6.patch
http://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-07:03/ipv6.patch.asc
Provided and/or discovered by:
Philippe Biondi and Arnaud Ebalard
Original Advisory:
FreeBSD:
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-07:03.ipv6.asc
http://www.secdev.org/conf/IPv6_RH_security-csw07.pdf
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