vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-0bb55a18-600a-11e6-a6c3-14dae9d210b8 (CVE-2015-2923): FreeBSD -- Denial of Service with IPv6 Router Advertisements

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 11, 2016
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Problem Description: The Neighbor Discover Protocol allows a local router to advertise a suggested Current Hop Limit value of a link, which will replace Current Hop Limit on an interface connected to the link on the FreeBSD system. Impact: When the Current Hop Limit (similar to IPv4's TTL) is small, IPv6 packets may get dropped before they reached their destinations. By sending specifically crafted Router Advertisement packets, an attacker on the local network can cause the FreeBSD system to lose the ability to communicate with another IPv6 node on a different network.

Solutions

freebsd-upgrade-base-10_1-release-p9freebsd-upgrade-base-9_3-release-p13freebsd-upgrade-base-8_4-release-p27
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