CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4263
7.9 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-01-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.9 HIGH — AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.34)
• vmware esx 3.0.0
• vmware esx 3.0.1
• vmware esx 3.0.2
• vmware esx 3.0.3
• vmware esx 3.5
• vmware esx 4.0
• vmware esx 4.1
• vmware esxi 3.5
• vmware esxi 4.0
• vmware esxi 4.1
• vmware esxi 5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=31b24b955c3ebbb6f3008a6374e61cf7c05a193c git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/06/3 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/06/9 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45208 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15582 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660188 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=31b24b955c3ebbb6f3008a6374e61cf7c05a193c git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/06/3 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/06/9 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42884 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/46397 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.34 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/520102/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45208 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15582 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660188 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory