Red Hat alert RHSA-2024:4620-01 (libndp)

An update for libndp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Libndp is a library (used by NetworkManager) that provides a wrapper for the
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol. It also provides a tool named ndptool for
sending and receiving NDP messages.

Security Fix(es):

* libndp: buffer overflow in route information length field (CVE-2024-5564)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer the CVE page(s)
listed in the References section.

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