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HIGH Ietf CVE published 2017-01-14

CVE-2016-10142

CVE-2016-10142 is an IPv6 protocol-level issue involving ICMPv6 Packet Too Big (PTB) handling. According to the supplied NVD record and linked IETF references, a forged PTB message with an MTU below 1280 can cause a host to generate IPv6 atomic fragments, which can blackhole traffic when fragments or extension headers are filtered and can also enable fragmentation-based abuse. NVD rates the issue CVSS 8.6 [truncated]