Advisories » MGASA-2024-0225

Updated libndp packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 17 Jun 2024
Modification date: 17 Jun 2024
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 9
CVE: CVE-2024-5564

Description

A vulnerability was found in libndp. This flaw allows a local malicious
user to cause a buffer overflow in NetworkManager, triggered by sending
a malformed IPv6 router advertisement packet. This issue occurred as
libndp was not correctly validating the route length information.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33304
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6830-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-5564

SRPMS

9/core

• libndp-1.8-2.1.mga9