Vulnerability · Published Mar 25, 2022 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2022-27881
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.9% (higher than 80% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.9%top 20.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
engine.c in slaacd in OpenBSD 6.9 and 7.0 before 2022-02-21 has a buffer overflow triggerable by an IPv6 router advertisement with more than seven nameservers. NOTE: privilege separation and pledge can prevent exploitation.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.0/common/014_slaacd.patch.sig x_refsource_MISC
- https://blog.quarkslab.com/heap-overflow-in-openbsds-slaacd-via-router-advertisement.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.9/common/030_slaacd.patch.sig x_refsource_MISC
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220506-0005/ x_refsource_CONFIRM