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CVE-2015-0272

high

Description

GNOME NetworkManager allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IPv6 traffic disruption) via a crafted MTU value in an IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) message, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8215.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192132

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2792-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76814

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00013.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00018.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00005.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00035.html

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=d5fc88e573fa58b93034b04d35a2454f5d28cad9

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-11-17

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0156