Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2013-0343

The ipv6_create_tempaddr function in net/ipv6/addrconf.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8 does not properly handle problems with the generation of IPv6 temporary addresses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive retries and address-generation outage), and consequently obtain sensitive information, via ICMPv6 Router Advertisement (RA) messages.

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 3.2 (Low). Vector: AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (75.8th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 76th percentile — 75.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2013-0343: held from 0.018 to 0.017.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.018 · newest: 0.017 · change: -0.001

Affected products

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