CVE-2008-2464
HIGH · CVSS 7.1EPSS 2.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 2.4% (84th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2459)
- Published
- September 11, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2459 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- freebsd / freebsd
- kame / kame
- netbsd / netbsd
References
- http://cert.fi/haavoittuvuudet/2008/advisory-netbsd.html(Exploit)
- http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c
- http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c.diff?r1=1.46&r2=1.47&f=h
- http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2008-011.txt.asc
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020822
- http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c
- http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/netinet6/mld6.c.diff?r1=1.34%3Br2=1.35%3Bf=h
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/817940(US Government Resource)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31026
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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