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CVE Number Vulnerability Product Severity Date
MS13-065 Vulnerability in ICMPv6 could allow Denial of Service (2868623) Windows Vista Important 14-08-2013

Technical Information

Brief overview of the risk:
The vulnerability could allow a denial of service if the attacker sends a specially crafted ICMP packet to the target system.
Detailed Information on the risk:

A denial of service vulnerability exists in the Windows TCP/IP stack that could cause the target system to stop responding until restarted. The vulnerability is caused when the TCP/IP stack does not properly allocate memory for incoming ICMPv6 packets.


Further information on this exploit is available at : MS13-065

Affected Software

Windows Vista Service Pack 2
Server Core installation option
Windows 7
Windows 7 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 1
Windows 7 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
Windows 8
Windows 8 for 32-bit Systems
Windows 8 for 64-bit Systems
Windows RT
Windows RT[1]
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2008 for 32-bit Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2008 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 2 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-based Systems Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1
Windows Server 2008 R2 for x64-based Systems Service Pack 1 (Server Core installation)
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 (Server Core installation)
Windows Vista x64 Edition Service Pack 2