CVE-2015-2922 describes a vulnerability in the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol within the Linux kernel (before version 3.19.6), affecting various distributions including Debian, Fedora, Oracle, and Red Hat. This flaw allows a remote attacker on the same network segment to manipulate the hop-limit setting of affected systems by sending a specially crafted Router Advertisement (RA) message with a small hop_limit value. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 3.3, indicating a low severity, as it requires adjacent network access and only impacts availability by potentially causing denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.19.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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