CVE-2015-2922 | BDVDB-2026-69597 Detail
Description#
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155908.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155804.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3237
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00011.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155854.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032417
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.19.6
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203712
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1534.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1564.html
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75a
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00023.html
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.