APPLIED: [SRU Focal, Jammy, OEM-6.0, Lunar 0/1] CVE-2023-45871

Roxana Nicolescu roxana.nicolescu at canonical.com
Fri Oct 27 12:02:04 UTC 2023


On 26/10/2023 19:43, Cengiz Can wrote:
> [Impact]
> An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c in the IGB
> driver in the Linux kernel before 6.5.3. A buffer size may not be adequate for
> frames larger than the MTU.
>
> [Fix]
> Cherry picked from upstream.
>
> [Test case]
> Compile and boot tested only. QEMU >= v8.0.0 supports creating an emulated Intel
> 82576 Gigabit Network Connection in guest machines however this turned out to be
> problematic in itself, particularly host->guest direction. Thus it was not a
> valid confirmation on this fix.
>
> [Potential regression]
> Users of the Intel Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver might be affected. However,
> this change only affects receive frames larger than the set MTU size.
>
> Radoslaw Tyl (1):
>    igb: set max size RX buffer when store bad packet is enabled
>
>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 11 +++++++----
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
Applied to f,j,l:master-next. Thanks!

Roxana



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