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:
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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.