CVE-2021-3905 (GCVE-0-2021-3905)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-23 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:09
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-401 - - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a openvswitch (ovs) Version: Fixed in v2.17.0
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