CVE-2008-2476: FORCE10 Ftos

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 7.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation in (1) FreeBSD 6.3 through 7.1, (2) OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3, (3) NetBSD, (4) Force10 FTOS before E7.7.1.1, (5) Juniper JUNOS, and (6) Wind River VxWorks 5.x through 6.4 does not validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery messages, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of connectivity) or read private network traffic via a spoofed message that modifies the Forward Information Base (FIB).

Affected products

• FORCE10 Ftos: any version
• Freebsd Freebsd: version 6.3 only; version 7.1 only
• Juniper Jnos: any version
• Netbsd Netbsd: any version
• OpenBSD OpenBSD: version 4.2 only; version 4.3 only
• Windriver Vxworks: up to and including 6.4; version 5 only; version 5.5 only

Published 2008-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.