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high 7.5

CVE-2015-8012 json

lldpd before 0.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via a malformed packet.

published 2020-01-28 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-7908

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

lldpd before 0.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via a malformed packet.

Patch / fix

  • lldpd_project lldpd 0.8.0
  • lldpd Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.7.19-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8012

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-8012 updated cvss 7.5

lldpd: malformed packet leads to assertion failure and daemon crash

  • Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 7 openvswitch, openvswitch2.10, openvswitch2.11, openvswitch2.12, openvswitch2.13, openvswitch-test, +19 more Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 8 openvswitch2.11, openvswitch2.12, openvswitch2.13, openvswitch2.11-test, openvswitch2.12-test, openvswitch2.13-test, +7 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 lldpd Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openvswitch2.13, openvswitch2.13-test, python3-openvswitch2.13, network-scripts-openvswitch2.13 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) openvswitch, openvswitch-test, python-openvswitch, openvswitch-ovn-host, openvswitch-ovn-vtep, openvswitch-ovn-common, +2 more Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) openvswitch, openvswitch2.11, openvswitch-test, python-openvswitch, openvswitch-ovn-host, openvswitch-ovn-vtep, +4 more
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Virtualization 4 openvswitch2.10, openvswitch2.11, rhv-openvswitch, openvswitch2.11-test, python-openvswitch2.10, python-openvswitch2.11, +7 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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