8.6
HIGH
CVE-2016-10142
IPv6 Protocol Vulnerability: ICMPv6 Packet Too Big (PTB) Message Handling
Description

An issue was discovered in the IPv6 protocol specification, related to ICMP Packet Too Big (PTB) messages. (The scope of this CVE is all affected IPv6 implementations from all vendors.) The security implications of IP fragmentation have been discussed at length in [RFC6274] and [RFC7739]. An attacker can leverage the generation of IPv6 atomic fragments to trigger the use of fragmentation in an arbitrary IPv6 flow (in scenarios in which actual fragmentation of packets is not needed) and can subsequently perform any type of fragmentation-based attack against legacy IPv6 nodes that do not implement [RFC6946]. That is, employing fragmentation where not actually needed allows for fragmentation-based attack vectors to be employed, unnecessarily. We note that, unfortunately, even nodes that already implement [RFC6946] can be subject to DoS attacks as a result of the generation of IPv6 atomic fragments. Let us assume that Host A is communicating with Host B and that, as a result of the widespread dropping of IPv6 packets that contain extension headers (including fragmentation) [RFC7872], some intermediate node filters fragments between Host B and Host A. If an attacker sends a forged ICMPv6 PTB error message to Host B, reporting an MTU smaller than 1280, this will trigger the generation of IPv6 atomic fragments from that moment on (as required by [RFC2460]). When Host B starts sending IPv6 atomic fragments (in response to the received ICMPv6 PTB error message), these packets will be dropped, since we previously noted that IPv6 packets with extension headers were being dropped between Host B and Host A. Thus, this situation will result in a DoS scenario. Another possible scenario is that in which two BGP peers are employing IPv6 transport and they implement Access Control Lists (ACLs) to drop IPv6 fragments (to avoid control-plane attacks). If the aforementioned BGP peers drop IPv6 fragments but still honor received ICMPv6 PTB error messages, an attacker could easily attack the corresponding peering session by simply sending an ICMPv6 PTB message with a reported MTU smaller than 1280 bytes. Once the attack packet has been sent, the aforementioned routers will themselves be the ones dropping their own traffic.

INFO

Published Date :

Jan. 14, 2017, 7:59 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 7, 2023, 2:29 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

4.0

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2016-10142 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Ietf ipv6

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2016-10142 vulnerability over time.

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  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K57211290?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference MITRE https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K57211290?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Oct. 09, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K57211290?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 11, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://kb.pulsesecure.net/articles/Pulse_Security_Advisories/SA43730 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 05, 2018

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0817.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 11, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038256 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 28, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95797 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 19, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-deprecate-atomfrag-generation-08 No Types Assigned https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-deprecate-atomfrag-generation-08 Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8021 No Types Assigned https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8021 Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-17
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:ietf:ipv6:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.65 }} 0.00%

score

0.76203

percentile

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