CVE-2015-0272

medium

Published 2015-11-17 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.0.4-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.0.4-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.0.4-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.0.4-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.0.4-1`
ubuntu	12.04	affected
suse	11	affected
suse	12	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gnome	networkmanager	`{"endExcluding":"1.2.0"}`	`1.2.0`
suse	linux_enterprise_debuginfo	`11`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.