The vulnerability of the __ibmvnic_open() function in the drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c file of the Ethernet network adapter driver for the Linux operating system allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the ibmvnicopen function in the drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c file of the Ethernet network adapter driver for the Linux operating system is related to the copying of buffers without checking the size of the input data a classic buffer overflow attack. Exploiting this...