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Juniper Junos OS: IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Crafted Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability (JSA10749) (CVE-2016-1409)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

May 29, 2016

Added

Oct 26, 2016

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solution

juniper-junos-os-upgrade-latest

References

CVE-2016-1409
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-1409
CWE-20
EUVD-EUVD-2016-2508
JUNIPER-JSA10749
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-2508

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