SUSE CVE-2015-1142857

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...

CVE-2015-1142857

CVE-2015-1142857 describes a network-virtualization flaw where VFs assigned to guests can cause ethernet flow-control pause frames to be sent via the PF on SR-IOV NICs. The vulnerability affects multiple drivers and firmware families: Linux ixgbe (before commit f079fa005aae08ee0e1bc32699874ff4f02...