CVE-2015-2923

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Published Feb 20, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 1.4% KEV · Not listed

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.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DSA	DSA-3175-2	kfreebsd-9 security update
EUVD	EUVD-2015-3008	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.

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Adjacent Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Adjacent Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: 1.4% (1.378% probability within 30 days)

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75a
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2015-April/041934.html
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6.asc

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Freebsd Freebsd

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Sources

CVE record Updated: Aug 6, 2024, 5:32 AM

Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: Feb 20, 2020, 3:28 AM
Updated: Aug 6, 2024, 5:32 AM
Reserved: Apr 4, 2015, 12:00 AM

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NVD Updated: Jun 17, 2026, 12:24 AM

Status: Modified
Published: Feb 20, 2020, 4:15 AM
Modified: Jun 17, 2026, 12:24 AM

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