vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-5242-1 (CVE-2021-3905): Open vSwitch vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 20, 2022
Added
Jan 21, 2022
Modified
Aug 18, 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

ubuntu-upgrade-openvswitch-common
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