Re: e1000e/82574L hardware erratum

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 02/06/2013 03:00 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> It's been reported that some Intel 82574L network controllers can
> be brought into a non-processing state by receiving certain
> Ethernet frames:
>
> <http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html>
>
> The packet is not malformed at the lower layers and will travel
> over the Internet.
>
> I have not tried to reproduced this.  Disabling hardware
> offloading features might constitue a workaround.
>
> Reportedly, this can be fixed by appropriate EEPROM settings, so a 
> driver-based workaround seems feasible/necessary.

Probably best if Mitre handles this.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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