CVE-2008-2464

high

Description

The mld_input function in sys/netinet6/mld6.c in the kernel in NetBSD 4.0, FreeBSD, and KAME, when INET6 is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and panic) via a malformed ICMPv6 Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) query with a certain Maximum Response Delay value.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31026

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/817940

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c.diff?r1=1.34%3Br2=1.35%3Bf=h

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c

http://securitytracker.com/id?1020822

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-011.txt.asc

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c.diff?r1=1.46&r2=1.47&f=h

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-09-11

Updated: 2026-04-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02007