An issue was discovered in lldpd before 1.0.17. By crafting a CDP PDU packet with specific CDPTLVADDRESSES TLVs, a malicious actor can remotely force the lldpd daemon to perform an out-of-bounds read on heap memory. This occurs in cdp_decode in daemon/protocols/cdp.c.
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