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CVE-2023-41910

Published: 05/09/2023 Updated: 27/09/2023
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 0

Vulnerability Summary

An issue exists in lldpd prior to 1.0.17. By crafting a CDP PDU packet with specific CDP_TLV_ADDRESSES TLVs, a malicious actor can remotely force the lldpd daemon to perform an out-of-bounds read on heap memory. This occurs in cdp_decode in daemon/protocols/cdp.c.

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Matteo Memelli reported an out-of-bounds read flaw when parsing CDP addresses in lldpd, an implementation of the IEEE 8021ab (LLDP) protocol A remote attacker can take advantage of this flaw to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted CDP PDU packet For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 1011 ...
DescriptionThe MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as: An issue was discovered in lldpd before 1017 By crafting a CDP PDU packet with specific CDP_TLV_ADDRESSES TLVs, a malicious actor can remotely force the lldpd daemon to perform an out-of-bounds read on heap memory This occurs in cdp_decode in daemon/protocols/cdpc ...