CVE-2015-2924

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-11-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

Networkmanager Project Networkmanager: through 1.0.7

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157803.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158103.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76879
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201509-05
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157803.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158103.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76879
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201509-05

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