🛡️ CVE-2026-48715 — radvd

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-121 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
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Description

radvd is a router advertisement daemon for IPv6. Prior to version 2.21, the radvdump utility shipped with radvd contains a stack buffer overflow in the Route Information option parser. When processing a crafted ICMPv6 Router Advertisement, print_ff() copies up to 2032 bytes from attacker-controlled packet data into a 16-byte struct in6_addr on the stack, overflowing by up to 2016 bytes. Note that the main radvd daemon is not affected by the vulnerability. Version 2.21 patches the issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-48715 is classified as CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow. An oversized write to a stack buffer overwrites saved state such as return addresses, which can redirect execution.

Affected software

CVE-2026-48715 is recorded against 1 package.

  • radvd (fixed in 2.21)

Timeline and source

Published on 19 June 2026 and last revised on 26 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
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CVE-2026-48715 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-121
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-19
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-26

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
radvd — 2.21

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