The vulnerability of the tx() function in the ATA over Ethernet (AoE) driver of the Linux operating system allows a hacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the tx function in the drivers/block/aoe/aoenet.c module of the Linux kernel is related to an incorrect counting of references to the netdevice structure object. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause service failures...