CVE-2026-41285

medium

Description

In OpenBSD through 7.8, the slaacd and rad daemons have an infinite loop when they receive a crafted ICMPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) option (over a local network) with length zero, because of an "nd_opt_len * 8 - 2" expression with no preceding check for whether nd_opt_len is zero.

References

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4861#section-4.6

https://www.openbsd.org/errata78.html

https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/086c5738bcd3c203bcc08d024fcf983cb409115f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-21

Updated: 2026-04-21

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: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Severity: Medium