CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-4538

10.0 HIGH Published 2010-01-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-01-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.32.3) • debian debian linux 4.0 • debian debian linux 5.0

References