Improper Input Validation Affecting freebsd package, versions [,10.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FREEBSD-2383048
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Feb 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Feb 2020

CVE-2015-2923  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade freebsd to version 10.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in FreeBSD through 10.1 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message.

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