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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 2, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2011-2393

CVE-2011-2393

Description

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and possibly other BSD-based operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and device hang) by sending many Router Advertisement (RA) messages with different source addresses, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2010-4670.

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Affected products

4
  • FreeBSD/FreeBSD2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
  • NetBSD/NetBSD2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)

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