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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3581-1 libndp -- security update

Date Reported:

17 May 2016

Affected Packages:

libndp

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 824545.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-3698.

More information:

Julien Bernard discovered that libndp, a library for the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol, does not properly perform input and origin checks during the reception of a NDP message. An attacker in a non-local network could use this flaw to advertise a node as a router, and cause a denial of service attack, or act as a man-in-the-middle.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libndp packages.