CVE-2015-1142857

Summary

CVECVE-2015-1142857
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-01-23 14:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-02-15 17:23:00 UTC
DescriptionOn multiple SR-IOV cars it is possible for VF's assigned to guests to send ethernet flow control pause frames via the PF. This includes Linux kernel ixgbe driver before commit f079fa005aae08ee0e1bc32699874ff4f02e11c1, the Linux Kernel i40e/i40evf driver before e7358f54a3954df16d4f87e3cad35063f1c17de5 and the DPDK before commit 3f12b9f23b6499ff66ec8b0de941fb469297e5d0, additionally Multiple vendor NIC firmware is affected.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-254

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Dpdk Dpdk - All All All
Operating System Dpdk Dpdk - All All All
Hardware Intel 82576 - All All All
Hardware Intel 82576 - All All All
Operating System Intel 82576 Firmware - All All All
Operating System Intel 82576 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Intel 82599 - All All All
Hardware Intel 82599 - All All All
Operating System Intel 82599 Firmware - All All All
Operating System Intel 82599 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Intel I350 - All All All
Hardware Intel I350 - All All All
Operating System Intel I350 Firmware - All All All
Operating System Intel I350 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Intel X540 - All All All
Hardware Intel X540 - All All All
Operating System Intel X540 Firmware - All All All
Operating System Intel X540 Firmware - All All All
Hardware Intel X710 - All All All
Hardware Intel X710 - All All All
Operating System Intel X710 Firmware - All All All
Operating System Intel X710 Firmware - All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel I40e/i40evf - All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel I40e/i40evf - All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel I40e/i40evf - All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel Ixgbe - All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel Ixgbe - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Intel® Product Security Center CONFIRM security-center.intel.com Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
oss-sec: CVE request -- Ethernet flow control vulnerability in SRIOV devices MLIST seclists.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-smolyar.pdf MISC www.usenix.org Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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