LLDP is an industry standard protocol designed to supplant proprietary Link-Layer protocols such as EDP or CDP. The goal of LLDP is to provide an inter-vendor compatible mechanism to deliver Link-Layer notifications to adjacent network devices. Security Fix(es): * lldp/openvswitch: denial of service via externally triggered memory leak (CVE-2020-27827) * lldpd: out-of-bounds read when decoding SONMP packets (CVE-2021-43612) * lldpd: CDP PDU Packet cdp.c out-of-bounds read (CVE-2023-41910) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.