IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol Vulnerability

CVE-2015-2922 · LOW Severity

AV:A/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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