A denial of service vulnerability exists in some motherboard implementations...

Vulnerability Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in some motherboard implementations of Intel e1000e/82574L network controller devices through 2013-02-06 where the device can be brought into a non-processing state when parsing 32 hex, 33 hex, or 34 hex byte values at the 0x47f offset. NOTE: A followup statement from Intel suggests that the root cause of this issue was an incorrectly configured EEPROM image.

References

• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1028089
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/12/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/12/3
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/85069
• http://web.archive.org/web/20131205055429/https://communities.intel.com/community/wired/blog/2013/02/07/intel-82574l-gigabit-ethernet-controller-statement
• http://blog.krisk.org/2013/02/packets-of-death.html