CVE-2009-3620
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · CWE-476
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
The ATI Rage 128 (aka r128) driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31-git11 does not properly verify Concurrent Command Engine (CCE) state initialization, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified ioctl calls.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36707Advisory
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/892259
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7dc482dfeeeefcfd000d4271c4626937406756d7
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.html
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html