CVE-2015-8012

Publication date 28 January 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

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

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
lldpd	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Not affected
	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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