CVE-2015-1142857
On multiple SR-IOV cars it is possible for VF's assigned to guests to send ethernet flow control pause frames via the PF.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.11%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
On 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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 8.6 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.11% probability · 81th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-254
- Affected
- intel/x710 firmware · intel/82599 firmware · intel/x540 firmware · intel/i350 firmware · intel/82576 firmware · linux/linux kernel ixgbe · linux/linux kernel i40e\/i40evf · dpdk/dpdk
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/425Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00046&languageid=en-frMitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-smolyar.pdfTechnical Description, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/425Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00046&languageid=en-frMitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-smolyar.pdfTechnical Description, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.