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CVE-2015-1142857

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-254

Description

On multiple SR-IOV cars it is possible for VF's assigned to guests to send ethernet flow control pause frames via the PF. This includes Linux kernel ixgbe driver before commit f079fa005aae08ee0e1bc32699874ff4f02e11c1, the Linux Kernel i40e/i40evf driver before e7358f54a3954df16d4f87e3cad35063f1c17de5 and the DPDK before commit 3f12b9f23b6499ff66ec8b0de941fb469297e5d0, additionally Multiple vendor NIC firmware is affected.

Affected products

• dpdk: all versions
• Intel 82576 Firmware: all versions
• Intel 82599 Firmware: all versions
• Intel I350 Firmware: all versions
• Intel X540 Firmware: all versions
• Intel X710 Firmware: all versions
• Linux Kernel I40E/I40Evf: all versions
• Linux Kernel Ixgbe: all versions

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/425
• https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00046&languageid=en-fr
• https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-smolyar.pdf
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/425
• https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00046&languageid=en-fr
• https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity15/sec15-paper-smolyar.pdf

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