Security Advisory - IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Crafted Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability

There is a vulnerability in the IP Version 6 (IPv6) Neighbor Discovery packet process of multiple products, successful exploit could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to start dropping legitimate IPv6 neighbors as legitimate ND times out, leading to a denial of service (DoS). (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-06012)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-1409.

Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160824-01-ipv6-en