Vulnerability: Denial of Service and Possible Other Impact in Intel Gigabit Ethernet (igb) Subsystem

Vulnerability: Denial of Service and Possible Other Impact in Intel Gigabit Ethernet (igb) Subsystem

CVE-2010-4263 · HIGH Severity

AV:A/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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