CVE-2015-2922
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.
- EPSS
- 3.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-17
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- linux:linux_kernel
- oracle:linux
- oracle:solaris
- redhat:enterprise_mrg
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75a
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155804.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155854.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/155908.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00023.html