New publications

Mitigating IPv6 neighbor discovery attacks by Fernando Gont, article published on techtarget

In this article, Fernando Gont presents attacks related to the "Neighbor Discovery" protocol, as well as the tools to use to protect against this type of attack. This article is part of a series entitled "» How to protect your IPv6 address management  »"in which he presents the attacks related to the management of IPv6 addressing within the network.

State of the Art in IPv6 Attack & Defense  presentation by Fernando Gont, conference IT-defense

During this presentation, Fernando Gont discusses the major risks associated with IPv6, particularly those related to "Extension Headers".

New vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-0618, Cisco IOS XR Software IPv6 Malformed Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability

• Affected product: Cisco IOS XR
• Impact: Denial of service (CVSS Base Score = 7.1)

CVE-2015-0632, Vulnerability in IPv6 Neighbor Discovery in Cisco IOS and IOS-XE Software

• Affected product: Cisco IOS XE Software
• Impact: Denial of service (CVSS Base Score = 4.6)