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OESA-2022-1778 (CVE-2021-3905)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2022-07-26 11:05 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:05 – Source website

Summary

openvswitch security update

Details

Open vSwitch is a production quality, multilayer virtual switch licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license.

Security Fix(es):

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.(CVE-2021-3905)

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/en/security/safety-bull…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3905	ADVISORY

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  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:05:03Z",
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}

CVE-2021-3905 (GCVE-0-2021-3905)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-23 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:09

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-401 - - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019692
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3905
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3905
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs-issues/issues/226
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/803ed12…
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-16	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	openvswitch (ovs)	Affected: Fixed in v2.17.0

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