CVE-2015-2924

Description

The receive_ra function in rdisc/nm-lndp-rdisc.c in the Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in NetworkManager 1.x allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message, a similar issue to CVE-2015-2922.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201509-05

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76879

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

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

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158103.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157803.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3