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Major Corruption Bug in e1000e Driver in Linux Kernel 2.6.27

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Sep 2008 20:36 UTC, submitted by AdamW

I'm generally not very fond of reporting on security breaches or bugs, but OSNews reader and Mandriva employee Adam Williamson warned us of a pretty serious bug in pre-releases of the Linux kernel. "A major bug has been found in the e1000e module (which supports some Intel onboard ethernet adapters) in Linux kernel 2.6.27 pre-releases (up to and including 2.6.27rc7). It can cause the EEPROM of the adapter to become corrupted, rendering it non-functional. This may affect current pre-releases of distributions. Mandriva has posted a detailed notification about the issue, as has SUSE." So, watch out.

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RE[3]: Tidbits

by AdamW on Wed 24th Sep 2008 03:06 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Tidbits"

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2005-07-06

Did you try just reflashing the BIOS? That should fix it.

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RE[4]: Tidbits

by Ethyriel on Wed 24th Sep 2008 03:14 in reply to "RE[3]: Tidbits"

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2005-07-07

I'm going to have to see about flashing with an old BIOS since I'm at the latest, and Lenovo's utility won't let me reflash the current version.

I've heard that a BIOS flash isn't working for everyone.

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RE[5]: Tidbits

by Ethyriel on Wed 24th Sep 2008 03:48 in reply to "RE[4]: Tidbits"

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2005-07-07

Yeah, that's not working for me.

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