CVE-2024-5564

Libndp: buffer overflow in route information length field

HIGH 8.1

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 1.17 % · percentile 67 (2026-10-28)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-05-31 18:31 UTC
Updated: 2025-11-20 07:21 UTC
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Deferred

Description

A vulnerability was found in libndp. This flaw allows a local malicious user to cause a buffer overflow in NetworkManager, triggered by sending a malformed IPv6 router advertisement packet. This issue occurred as libndp was not correctly validating the route length information.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-120 — Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	redhat
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2024-47152
GCVE · GCVE-0-2024-5564

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0855 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Juniper Networks · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2024-AVI-0903 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2024-AVI-0741 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Juniper Secure Analytics · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2024-AVI-0720 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans IBM QRadar SIEM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected products

Product	Versions
libndp	affected 1.0 < 1.7-7
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	unaffected 0:1.9-2.el10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extended Lifecycle Support	unaffected 0:1.2-10.el7_9 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	unaffected 0:1.7-7.el8_10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support	unaffected 0:1.7-4.el8_2 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 0:1.7-6.el8_4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service	unaffected 0:1.7-6.el8_4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 0:1.7-6.el8_4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support	unaffected 0:1.7-7.el8_6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service	unaffected 0:1.7-7.el8_6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 0:1.7-7.el8_6 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support	unaffected 0:1.7-7.el8_8 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	unaffected 0:1.8-6.el9_4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions	unaffected 0:1.8-5.el9_0 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support	unaffected 0:1.8-5.el9_2 < *

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD