CVE-2015-2923

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3