CVE-2021-3905
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-23 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:09
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3905Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019692Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/openvswitch/ovs-issues/issues/226Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/803ed12e31b0377c37d7aa8c94b3b92f2081e349Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-16
secalert@redhat.comhttps://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3905Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3905Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019692Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs-issues/issues/226Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/803ed12e31b0377c37d7aa8c94b3b92f2081e349Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-16
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3905Patch, Third Party Advisory
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