EGI SVG Advisories

Advisory-EGI-SVG-2024-16

HIGH risk vulnerability in libndp

Date: 2024-07-23 Updated: 2024-08-22

HIGH risk vulnerability concerning libndp. This flaw allows a local malicious user to cause a buffer overflow in NetworkManager, triggered by sending a malformed IPv6 router advertisement packet. [R 1]

IDs AND CVSS SCORE

EGI SVG ID : EGI-SVG-2024-16

CVE ID : CVE-2024-5564

CVSS Score : 8.1 [R 1]

ACTIONS REQUIRED/RECOMMENDED

Sites are recommended to update relevant components as soon as possible using information in the references below.

Sites should be aware that if a public exploit is released which allows easy root access in the EGI infrastructure this vulnerability is likely to be elevated to ‘Critical’ and sites will then be required to patch within 7 days or risk suspension.

MITIGATION

No mitigation has been identified for this vulnerability [R 1]

MORE INFORMATION

Red Hat rates this as an Important severity, as a local attacker may gain enough information to jeopardize the environment’s confidentiality, integrity and availability.

STATUS OF THIS ADVISORY

TLP:WHITE information - Unlimited distribution

https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-EGI-SVG-2024-16

https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-5564

CONTACT AND OTHER INFORMATION ON SVG


This advisory is subject to the Creative Commons licence 
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and
the EGI (https://www.egi.eu/) Software Vulnerability Group 
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Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat at mailman.egi.eu

Vulnerabilities relevant for EGI can be reported at report-vulnerability at egi.eu

(see [R 99] for further details, and other information on SVG)

REFERENCES

CREDITS

SVG was alerted to this vulnerability by Mischa Salle