Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-2924

Title: Networkmanager Project Networkmanager Improper Input Validation

Input Validation Error

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-2924.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Nov 16, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.20%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-2924: The receive_ra function in rdisc/nm-lndp-rdisc.c in the Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in NetworkManager 1.x allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message, a similar issue to CVE-2015-2922.

Impacted Vendors

redhat 1

networkmanager_project 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157803.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158103.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76879 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201509-05 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157803.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/158103.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76879 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201509-05

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-2924 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 16, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.