CVE-2009-3613 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2009-3613 at MITRE

Description

The swiotlb functionality in the r8169 driver in drivers/net/r8169.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (IOMMU space exhaustion and system crash) by using jumbo frames for a large amount of network traffic, as demonstrated by a flood ping.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 547131 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2009:064, published Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 17:10:09 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:35:27 2023