CVE-2010-4263

medium

Description

The igb_receive_skb function in drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c in the Intel Gigabit Ethernet (aka igb) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34, when Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) and promiscuous mode are enabled but no VLANs are registered, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and panic) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a VLAN tagged frame.

References

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45208

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34

http://secunia.com/advisories/46397

http://secunia.com/advisories/42890

http://secunia.com/advisories/42884

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=31b24b955c3ebbb6f3008a6374e61cf7c05a193c

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-01-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium