Improper access control in DPDK Project products - CVE-2015-1142857

Vulnerability identifier: #VU11460

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1142857

CWE-ID: CWE-284

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.
 
The weakness exists due to sending ethernet flow control pause frames via the PF. A remote attacker can trigger network congestion spreading and cause the service to crash.

Intel Ethernet 500 Series Controllers driver for Linux
i40e/i40evf driver for Linux
DPDK
SUSE Linux

Install update from vendor's website.

• https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00046&languageid=en-fr

• SUSE Linux update for the Linux Kernel
• SUSE Linux update for the Linux Kernel
• SUSE Linux update for the Linux Kernel
• SUSE Linux update for the Linux Kernel