CVE-2009-4538

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-01-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c in the e1000e driver in the Linux kernel 2.6.32.3 and earlier does not properly check the size of an Ethernet frame that exceeds the MTU, which allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact via crafted packets, a related issue to CVE-2009-4537.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 4.0, 5.0
Linux kernel: through 2.6.32.3

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035159.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-03/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38031
http://secunia.com/advisories/38276
http://secunia.com/advisories/38296
http://secunia.com/advisories/38492
http://secunia.com/advisories/38610
http://secunia.com/advisories/38779

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