CVE-2009-4538 Information

Description

drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c in the e1000e driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.32.3 and earlier does not properly check the size of an Ethernet frame that exceeds the MTU which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via crafted packets a related issue to CVE-2009-4537.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035159.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00008.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/38031 http://secunia.com/advisories/38276 http://secunia.com/advisories/38296 http://secunia.com/advisories/38492 http://secunia.com/advisories/38610 http://secunia.com/advisories/38779 http://securitytracker.com/id?1023420 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1996 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2005 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:066 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/28/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/29/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/12/31/1 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0019.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0020.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0041.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0053.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0111.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37523 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551214 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/55645 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A7016 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9702 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html