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CVE-2015-0272

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

GNOME NetworkManager allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IPv6 traffic disruption) via a crafted MTU value in an IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) message, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8215.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04
• GNOME NetworkManager: before 1.2.0 — fixed in 1.2.0
• Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 7
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp2, 11-sp3, 11-sp4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp3, 11-sp4, 12, 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: 11-sp3, 11-sp4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11, 11-sp2, 11-sp3, 11-sp4, 12, 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp3, 11-sp4, 12, 12-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12, 12-sp1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNOME NetworkManager 1.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=d5fc88e573fa58b93034b04d35a2454f5d28cad9
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00035.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00018.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00013.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76814
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2792-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192132

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