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CVE-2010-2478

Description

From CVE.org

Integer overflow in the ethtool_get_rxnfc function in net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33.7 on 32-bit platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via an ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLALL ethtool command with a large info.rule_cnt value that triggers a buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-3084.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, as they do not include support for the Neptune Ethernet driver. It did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG, as they do not contain the upstream commit 0853ad66 that introduced this flaw.

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