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CVE-2010-2523

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2523 describes multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the mipv6 daemon's ha.c component within UMIP 0.4. These flaws allow remote attackers to achieve significant impact (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) through specially crafted ND_OPT_PREFIX_INFORMATION or ND_OPT_HOME_AGENT_INFO packets. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is considered critical, indicating an easily exploitable network-based attack without authentication. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linux-ipv6:umip:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0296 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2523Important

mipv6-daemon: multiple buffer overflows allow remote attackers to have unspecified impact

Oct 24, 2009

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
marc.info
marc.info
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/07/06/5
Patch
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/07/07/4
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2010/07/09/1
securityfocus.com / bid/41522