CVE-2010-4263 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=31b24b955c3ebbb6f3008a6374e61cf7c05a193c http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/06/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/06/9 http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45208 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15582 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660188