Description
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.
Metrics
CVSS 2.0 3.3/10
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PWeakness enumeration
Affected software
No affected versions have been published.
Timeline
- Published
- May 27, 2015
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified