Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) Origin Validation Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2016-3698 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

libndp before 1.6, as used in NetworkManager, does not properly validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) messages, which allows remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks or cause a denial of service (network connectivity disruption) by advertising a node as a router from a non-local network.

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