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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2016-1409 Detail

Description

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20160525-ipv6 CVE, Cisco Systems, Inc. Vendor Advisory 
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160824-01-ipv6-en CVE, Cisco Systems, Inc. Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90872 CVE, Cisco Systems, Inc. Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035962 CVE, Cisco Systems, Inc. Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035963 CVE, Cisco Systems, Inc. Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035964 CVE, Cisco Systems, Inc. Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035965 CVE, Cisco Systems, Inc. Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036651 CVE, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-1409
NVD Published Date:
05/29/2016
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Cisco Systems, Inc.