CVE-2015-0272 Information

Description

GNOME 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.

Reference

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=d5fc88e573fa58b93034b04d35a2454f5d28cad9 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00035.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00018.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00026.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00031.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00013.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00038.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76814 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2792-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192132