VulnerabilityModified
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.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 1.38%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.38%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.38% probability · 71th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- freebsd/freebsd
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75aPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2015-April/041934.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6.ascMitigation, Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75aPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2015-April/041934.htmlMailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6.ascMitigation, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.