CVE-2015-8914

Publication date 17 June 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.1 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

The IPTables firewall in OpenStack Neutron before 7.0.4 and 8.0.0 through 8.1.0 allows remote attackers to bypass an intended ICMPv6-spoofing protection mechanism and consequently cause a denial of service or intercept network traffic via a link-local source address.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
neutron 19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
neutron

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.1 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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