Ubuntu: USN-5242-1 (CVE-2021-3905): Open vSwitch vulnerability
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
01/20/2022
01/25/2022
01/21/2022
03/22/2023
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(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-openvswitch-common
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