oss-security - Re: CVE request: kernel: igb panics when receiving tag vlan packet

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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:17:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: igb panics when receiving
 tag vlan packet

Please use CVE-2010-4263

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Eugene Teo" <eugene@...hat.com> wrote:

> If igb's SR-IOV and promiscuous mode are enabled and the interface 
> receives a tag VLAN packet, this will result in a null pointer 
> dereference. To fix this, we will backport upstream commit 31b24b95 to
> 
> ensure that vlan_gro_receive is only used if vlans have been
> registered 
> to the adapter structure.
> 
> Reference:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660188
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15582
> 
> Upstream commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/31b24b95
> 
> Thanks, Eugene

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