CVE-2015-2922

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 13
Modified
Published: 27 May 2015, 10:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 05:32

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
24/100
CVSS Score
3.3 LOW
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
1.72% LOW
2% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
2 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

27 May 2015, 10:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 05:32
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•LOW•Score: 3.3AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.72%• Percentile: 83%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-17•DEPRECATED: Code

    This entry has been deprecated. It was originally used for organizing the Development View (CWE-699) and some other views, but it introduced unnecessary complexity and depth to the resulting tree.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    7.0 | 8.0

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    20 | 21 | 22

  • linux•linux_kernel

    ≤ 3.19.5

  • oracle•linux

    5.0

  • Unknown•Solaris

    11.3

  • redhat•enterprise_mrg

    2.5

References (19)