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CVE-2015-2923 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:6.5 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2 CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75a CVEPatchThird Party Advisory
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2015-April/041934.html CVEMailing ListVendor Advisory
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6.asc CVEMitigationVendor Advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2 [email protected]Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

see all 8 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-20Improper Input Validation[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
freebsd freebsd
< 10.1

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

4 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-2923
NVD Published Date:
Feb 20, 2020
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2015-2923 Details - Not Deferred