CVE-2020-27827 – lldp/openvswitch: denial of service via externally triggered memory leak

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2020-27827

28 Jan 2021 — A flaw was found in multiple versions of OpenvSwitch. Specially crafted LLDP packets can cause memory to be lost when allocating data to handle specific optional TLVs, potentially causing a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. Se encontró un fallo en múltiples versiones de OpenvSwitch. Los paquetes LLDP especialmente diseñados pueden causar que una memoria se pierda cuando se asignan datos para manejar TLV opcionales específicos, potencialmente causan... • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1921438 • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption •