vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-3905: openvswitch: External triggered memory leak in Open vSwitch while processing fragmented packets

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 23, 2022
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

A memory leak was found in Open vSwitch (OVS) during userspace IP fragmentation processing. An attacker could use this flaw to potentially exhaust available memory by keeping sending packet fragments.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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