CVE-2015-2923

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2020-02-20

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Freebsd (Freebsd)

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75a
• https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2015-April/041934.html
• https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6.asc