CVE-2009-3613

high

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.

References

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1548.html

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7377

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10209

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2009-3594

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529137

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36706

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1671.html

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.22

http://secunia.com/advisories/38834

http://secunia.com/advisories/38794

http://secunia.com/advisories/37909

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125561712529352&w=2

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a866bbf6aacf95f849810079442a20be118ce905

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97d477a914b146e7e6722ded21afa79886ae8ccd

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9468

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-10-19

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.12461