Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
Also, didn't we fix this ages ago?! I distinctly remember this coming up 
before...

On 18 October 2019 20:35:32 CEST, Sebastian Benoit <be...@openbsd.org> wrote:
>CVSROOT:       /cvs
>Module name:   src
>Changes by:    be...@cvs.openbsd.org   2019/10/18 12:35:32
>
>Modified files:
>       sys/netinet6   : nd6_nbr.c 
>
>Log message:
>Don't check that the ipv6 source address of a neighbor advertisment is
>from a neighbor's address. Sthen@ dug out RFC 4861 4.4 that says that
>the source address is "An address assigned to the interface from which
>the advertisement is sent." -- which can be from a network that the
>receiver does not know about. Indeed my provider sends such a neighbor
>advertisment for my default gateway, which breaks my uplink.
>
>Claudio@ added this check for symetry with NetBSD code when he added
>the same check to nd6_ns_input(), where it is needed to fix
>CVE-2008-2476. See also OpenBSD 4.2 errata 15.
>
>ok claudio@, kn@

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