Saint Bad Neighbor (Ping of Death Redux)

Technical record

Disclosed on

October 13 2020

CVE

CVE-2020-16898

CVSS

8.8

Product

Microsoft · Windows 10 Version 1803

<p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Windows TCP/IP stack improperly handles ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the ability to execute code on the target server or client.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to send specially crafted ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets to a remote Windows computer.</p> <p>The update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the Windows TCP/IP stack handles ICMPv6 Router Advertisement packets.</p>

Sources: msrc.microsoft.com · web.archive.org