CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5869
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The Neighbor Discovery (ND) protocol implementation in the IPv6 stack in Apple iOS before 9 allows remote attackers to reconfigure a hop-limit setting via a small hop_limit value in a Router Advertisement (RA) message.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x (<= 10.10.5)
• apple iphone os (<= 8.4.1)
• apple watchos 1.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2 openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76764 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033609 www.securitytracker.com
- https://support.apple.com/HT205212 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT205213 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267 Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2 openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76764 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033609 www.securitytracker.com
- https://support.apple.com/HT205212 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT205213 Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267 Vendor Advisory