Bug 660188 (CVE-2010-4263) - CVE-2010-4263 kernel: igb panics when receiving tag vlan packet
Summary: CVE-2010-4263 kernel: igb panics when receiving tag vlan packet
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2010-4263
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 652804 660189 660190 660191 660192
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-12-06 01:58 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2023-05-12 20:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-03-28 08:56:33 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0007 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2011-01-11 19:44:55 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0017 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 kernel security and bug fix update 2011-01-13 10:37:42 UTC

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-12-06 01:58:55 UTC
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.

[ This fixes bugzilla entry 15582 -Eric Dumazet]

It matters if CONFIG_PCI_IOV is enabled, e.g. grep -ir SRIOV drivers/net/igb/*.

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/31b24b95

References:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15582

Comment 4 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-12-06 02:45:11 UTC
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they did not include support for PCI I/O Virtualization (IOV). Future updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 may address this flaw.

Comment 5 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-12-08 08:26:19 UTC
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Kosuke Tatsukawa for reporting this issue.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-11 19:45:24 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0007 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 22:03:04 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:0017 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-14 09:03:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:0017 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0017.html


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