CVE-2015-1142857

HIGH

Intel x710/82599/x540/i350/82576 Firmware & Linux ixgbe/i40e/i40evf/DPDK - DoS via Flow Control Pause Frames

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/425
Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-smolyar.pdf

Scores

CVSS v3 8.6
EPSS 0.0069
EPSS Percentile 72.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-254
Status published
Products (8)
dpdk/dpdk
intel/82576_firmware
intel/82599_firmware
intel/i350_firmware
intel/x540_firmware
intel/x710_firmware
linux/linux_kernel_i40e\/i40evf
linux/linux_kernel_ixgbe
Published Jan 23, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026