![]() ![]() The Latvian vendor explains in a blog post that the flaw "caused the memory to be filled because IPv6 route cache size could be bigger than the available RAM." To fix it, the new RouterOS can calculate the cache size based on the memory available on the device. Barts) French-speaking Caribbean island (51%) and the United States (46.5%). Data from Akamai on April 1 shows that India is the country delivering most of the traffic over IPv6 (63.3%) followed by Saint Barthelemy (St. To bring the system down, all an attacker has to do is send a specific string of IPv6 packets that would increase RAM usage on the router.Īlthough the transition to IPv6 is far from complete, adoption has grown lately. Tracked as CVE-2018-19299, the vulnerability affects unpatched MikroTik equipment that routes IPv6 packets. The latest updates for the operating system are meant to address the problem, but they do not have the same effect on all devices and some of them continue to be vulnerable. MikroTik on Thursday published details about an issue that is easy to exploit remotely to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on devices running RouterOS, which is most products from the maker. ![]()
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