RHSA-2024:4642 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libndp security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 9

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · July 19, 2024

Updated · March 18, 2026

Topic

An update for libndp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support.

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.

Description

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 to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2024:4642 — Red Hat Security Advisory: libndp security update | PulseLinux