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CVE-2010-2478

Published: Sep 29, 2010

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

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Description

Integer overflow in the ethtool_get_rxnfc function in net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33.7 on 32-bit platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via an ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL ethtool command with a large info.rule_cnt value that triggers a buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3084.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608950

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vendor-advisory

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[oss-security] 20100629 kernel: ethtool: kernel buffer overflow in ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33.7

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=db048b69037e7fa6a7d9e95a1271a50dc08ae233

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SUSE-SA:2010:040

vendor-advisory

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[netdev] 20100628 [PATCH net-2.6 1/2] ethtool: Fix potential kernel buffer overflow in ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL

mailing-list

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[oss-security] 20100629 Re: kernel: ethtool: kernel buffer overflow in ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL

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vdb-entry

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[oss-security] 20100630 Re: kernel: ethtool: kernel buffer overflow in ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL

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