[Secure-testing-team] Bug#824545: libndp: CVE-2016-3698: denial of service due to insufficient validation of source of NDP messages

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: libndp
Version: 1.4-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream patch fixed-upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for libndp.

CVE-2016-3698[0]:
denial of service due to insufficient validation of source of NDP messages

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3698
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329366
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3698

The new upstream version 1.6 fixes the issue as well.

Regards,
Salvatore