CVE-2015-5869 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00005.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/04/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76764 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033609 https://support.apple.com/HT205212 https://support.apple.com/HT205213 https://support.apple.com/HT205267