Secure testing team - Jun 2009 - Bug#532376: r8169: network buffer overflow

Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.29-5
Severity: critical
Tags: security patch

Some or all NICs supported by r8169 seem to ignore the buffer sizes in
RX descriptors, and will write up to the global maximum frame size.
This means a remote attacker can overflow RX buffers, probably
allowing for code injection.  This should be fixed by the patch posted
in:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/130114

Ben.

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