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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:42:53 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: lldpd crash in lldp_decode due large management address

* Florian Weimer:

> Upstream commit:
>
> <https://github.com/vincentbernat/lldpd/commit/dd4f16e7e816f2165fba76e3d162cd8d2978dcb2>
>
> If compiled with effective source fortification, the vulnerability is
> just a crash and not exploitable for anything else, as a result of the
> compiler-emitted length check for memcpy inside the PEEK_BYTES macro.

There is also another fix, an improper assert leading to a daemon
crash:

https://github.com/vincentbernat/lldpd/commit/793526f8884455f43daecd0a2c46772388417a00

This probably needs a separate CVE ID.

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