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CVE-2015-2923

medium

Description

The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in FreeBSD through 10.1 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message.

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75a

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2

https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6.asc

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2015-April/041934.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-02-20

Updated: 2020-02-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.3

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03168