Re: Re: e1000e/82574L hardware erratum

[Eitan Adler <lists () eitanadler com>]

On 12 February 2013 11:42,  <cve-assign () mitre org> wrote:
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> > It's been reported that some Intel 82574L network controllers can be
> > brought into a non-processing state by receiving certain Ethernet
> > frames:
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> > <http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html>
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> > The packet is not malformed at the lower layers and will travel over
> > the Internet.
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> Use CVE-2013-1634.

It should be noted that this is motherboard specific.  In particular
only motherboard manufacturers that ignored Intel guidelines are
affected (acc' to intel).

Their official statement is here:
http://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2013/02/07/intel-82574l-gigabit-ethernet-controller-statement


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Eitan Adler