CVE-2007-2242 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-2242 at MITRE

Description

The IPv6 protocol allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted IPv6 type 0 route headers (IPV6_RTHDR_TYPE_0) that create network amplification between two routers.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 270814 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 739531 [RESOLVED / NORESPONSE]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2007:051, published Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2008:006, published Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:15:00 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:56 2025