CVE-2021-3905
Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.5)—
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.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 1.99%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 80
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (4)
CWE
- CWE-401
- CWE-401
Referencias
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3905
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019692
- https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs-issues/issues/226
- https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/803ed12e31b0377c37d7aa8c94b3b92f2081e349
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-16
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3905
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3905
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019692
- https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs-issues/issues/226
- https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/803ed12e31b0377c37d7aa8c94b3b92f2081e349
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-16
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3905
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