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CVE-2022-27882
slaacd in OpenBSD 6.9 and 7.0 before 2022-03-22 has an integer signedness error and resultant heap-based buffer overflow triggerable by a…
High7.5EPSS 1.9%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
slaacd in OpenBSD 6.9 and 7.0 before 2022-03-22 has an integer signedness error and resultant heap-based buffer overflow triggerable by a crafted IPv6 router advertisement. NOTE: privilege separation and pledge can prevent exploitation.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- https://blog.quarkslab.com/heap-overflow-in-openbsds-slaacd-via-router-advertisement.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.0/common/017_slaacd.patch.sig (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.9/common/033_slaacd.patch.sig (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220506-0005/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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