CVE-2015-2922
lowpriority · track · 14EPSS 0.030 · 87 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The ndisc_router_discovery function in net/ipv6/ndisc.c in the Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in the Linux kernel before 3.19.6 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message.
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affected products (10)
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references (59)
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- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75acnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155804.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155854.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155908.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00023.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00011.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.htmlcnnvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1221.htmlcnnvd
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