[Bug 263555] Re: [intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at risk

John Dong john.dong at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 15:37:35 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Pelládi Gábor
<pelladigabor at gmail.com>wrote:

> Can this bug destroy hardware even if Intrepid alpha 6 is run as a guest
> on a stable Hardy? That is, does a virtual machine protect my hardware
> from this bug?
>

No, it cannot. It may or may not be capable of damaging the virtual
machine's virtual e1000 card though (I think I read one report of this!)

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[intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at risk
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263555
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