LLDP is an industry standard protocol designed to supplant proprietary Link-Layer protocols such as EDP or CDP. The goal of LLDP is to provide an inter-vendor compatible mechanism to deliver Link-Layer notifications to adjacent network devices.
Security Fix(es):
lldp/openvswitch: denial of service via externally triggered memory leak (CVE-2020-27827)
lldpd: out-of-bounds read when decoding SONMP packets (CVE-2021-43612)
lldpd: CDP PDU Packet cdp.c out-of-bounds read (CVE-2023-41910)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 9.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.