Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2015-2923 |
CWE-ID | CWE-20 |
Exploitation vector | Local network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
FreeBSD Operating systems & Components / Operating system |
Vendor | FreeBSD Foundation |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU30357
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 5.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2923
CWE-ID:
CWE-20 - Improper input validation
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
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.
MitigationInstall update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsFreeBSD: 10.0
External linkshttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6fd99094de2b83d1d4c8457f2c83483b2828e75a
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2015-April/041934.html
http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:09.ipv6.asc
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the local network (LAN).
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.