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CVE-2008-4404

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2008-10-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation on IBM zSeries servers 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), a related issue to CVE-2008-2476.

Affected Platforms

Ibm Zseries

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References