ubuntu · CVE-2016-3698

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-05-17 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:59:56 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-3698 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libndp), 7 status rows across 7 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 5, DNE 2.

Description:

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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