+ What bug? Where was it fixed?

The Bug itself was discussed on the nagios nrpe github repository, see here:
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/issues/113

The cause of the issue is mentioned in comment #313378250, good read to 
understand what has happened:
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/issues/113#issuecomment-313378250

Or here the short gist of it:
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/issues/113#issuecomment-313396185
Note: This is also were the fix-commits mentioned by Vinson Lee are coming from


+ Will updating just nagios-nrpe break existing 17.04 installs?

AFAIK the commits only fix the the issue introduced by
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-nagios/pkg-
nrpe.git/commit/?id=a4b095ea which did unconditionally disabled the
'need_dh' flag.

Tests have been done by sebastic here:
https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nrpe/issues/113#issuecomment-313677276


Addendum:
To my understanding we actually need those two:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-nagios/pkg-nrpe.git/commit/?h=debian/3.0.1-3%2bdeb9u1&id=2b82acf0ff3a93db939bb327046e010c7f360c43
 
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-nagios/pkg-nrpe.git/commit/?h=debian/3.0.1-3%2bdeb9u1&id=5a13300801c2880fe9c1add81751b71aecb20e4b

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