CVE-2015-0272

Summary

CVECVE-2015-0272
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-11-17 15:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 00:46:00 UTC
DescriptionGNOME NetworkManager allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IPv6 traffic disruption) via a crafted MTU value in an IPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) message, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8215.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Application Gnome Networkmanager All All All All
Application Gnome Networkmanager - All All All
Application Gnome Networkmanager - All All All
Operating System Oracle Linux 7 - All All
Application Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11 sp2 All All
Application Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11 sp3 All All
Application Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 - All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 sp1 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 11 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 - All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp2 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12 - All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 12 sp1 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 - All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 sp1 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 12 sp1 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:2350-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2016:0354-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
access.redhat.com | CVE-2015-0272 MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:2108-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2016:2074-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:2194-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:2339-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Oracle Linux Bulletin - October 2015 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
GNOME NetworkManager 'ipv6/addrconf.c' Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
USN-2792-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:2292-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
NetworkManager/NetworkManager - Network connection manager and user applications (mirrored from https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager) CONFIRM cgit.freedesktop.org Issue Tracking, Patch
Bug 1192132 – CVE-2015-0272 kernel/NetworkManager: remote DoS using IPv6 RA with bogus MTU CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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