Remote Code Execution via Neighbor Discovery Protocol in NetworkManager 1.x

CVE-2015-2924 · LOW Severity

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

The receive_ra function in rdisc/nm-lndp-rdisc.c in the Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in NetworkManager 1.x allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message, a similar issue to CVE-2015-2922.

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