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Juniper Networks JUNOS IPv6 Packets Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Posted by: Jordi on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 - 04:54 PM
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A vulnerability has been identified in Juniper Networks JUNOS, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error when handling malformed IPv6 packets, which could be exploited by attackers to consume all kernel packet memory and cause a vulnerable router to crash.
Complete info at FrSIRT, Secunia and SecuObs.