National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0241
Original release date:02/10/2010
Last revised:08/21/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The TCP/IP implementation in Microsoft Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2 and Server 2008 Gold and SP2, when IPv6 is enabled, does not properly perform bounds checking on ICMPv6 Route Information packets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets, aka "ICMPv6 Route Information Vulnerability."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA10-040A
Name: TA10-040A
External Source: MS
Name: MS10-009
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8516
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8516
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
