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CVE-2015-1142857 json

On multiple SR-IOV cars it is possible for VF's assigned to guests to send ethernet flow control pause frames via the PF.

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-1143

cvss
8.6
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • kernel-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.21.1
  • kernel-syms-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.21.1
  • kernel-rt_trace SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.21.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Real Time 11 SP4 3.0.101.rt130-69.21.1
  • kernel-firmware SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +4 more 20170530-21.19.1
  • kernel-firmware SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4 20110923-0.59.3.1
  • drbd SLE High Availability Extension 11 SP4 8.4.4-0.27.4.2
  • gfs2 SLE Real Time 11 SP4, SLE High Availability Extension 11 SP4 2-0.24.4.6

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:1570-1SUSE-SU-2018:1567-1SUSE-SU-2018:0841-1SUSE-SU-2018:0674-1SUSE-SU-2018:0671-1SUSE-SU-2018:0555-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2015-1142857 updated cvss 4.3

kernel: net: ethernet flow control vulnerability in SRIOV devices

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) openvswitch-dpdk Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 kernel-rt, mrg-rt-release, kernel-rt-trace, kernel-rt-vanilla, kernel-rt-firmware Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) openvswitch-dpdk
    +1 more products
    Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) openvswitch-dpdk
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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Sources

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