The VMX process in VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1 and ESX 3.5 through 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving data pointers.

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.2, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.2, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 use an incorrect ACL for the VMware Tools folder, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges via unspecified vectors.

If igb's SR-IOV and promiscuous mode are enabled and the interface receives a tag VLAN packet, this will result in a null pointer dereference. To fix this, we will backport upstream commit 31b24b95 to ensure that vlangroreceive is only used if vlans have been registered to the adapter structure.

[ This fixes bugzilla entry 15582 -Eric Dumazet]

It matters if CONFIGPCIIOV is enabled, e.g. grep -ir SRIOV drivers/net/igb/.

Upstream commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/31b24b95

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/showbug.cgi?id=15582