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

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2021-3905: openvswitch: External triggered memory leak in Open vSwitch while processing fragmented packets
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2022-08-23T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2021, 3905, openvswitch, no-fix-redhat-rpm-package, Severity 8

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Severity

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

References

NVD-CVE-2021-3905

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