[Bug 1450066] Re: IPv6 hop limit set to 0

2015-06-23 Thread Marcel Nageler
This issue may be resolved by providing a newer version of networkmanager (= 0.9.10.2) In this version a patch was introduced to mitigate CVE-2015-2922 (don't allow setting the HL smaller than it was before) This patch also makes sure a HL 10 does not get set. [ 1 ] The changelog of version

[Bug 1450066] Re: IPv6 hop limit set to 0

2015-06-23 Thread Marcel Nageler
This bug is due to a failure in handling router advertisments. According to RFC 4861 (page 20) a _Cur Hop Limit_ set to 0 means, that the Hop Limit is unspecified. Ubuntu 15.04 takes this literally and sets HL to 0. Fortunately my router provided the option to set this field to a manual value,