CVE-2010-4669: Microsoft Windows 2003 Server

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 29.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and system hang) by sending many Router Advertisement (RA) messages with different source addresses, as demonstrated by the flood_router6 program in the thc-ipv6 package.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: any version
• Microsoft Windows 7: any version
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008: affected versions not specified
• Microsoft Windows Vista: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2011-01-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.