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CVE-2021-3905

A memory leak was found in Open vSwitch (OVS) during userspace IP fragmentation processing.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
OpenvswitchOpenvswitch
before 2.17.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Fast Datapath
Versions 7.0, 8.0
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Version 21.10
FedoraprojectFedora
Version 35

Weakness classification

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