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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

12.5% · top 3.8% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (19)

• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10209 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:1671 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20091015 Re: CVE request kernel: flood ping cause (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:1540 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7377 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• USN-864-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 38794 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [security-announce] 20100303 VMSA-2010-0004 ESX Service Console and vMA third party updates (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=97d477a914b146e7e6722ded21afa79886ae8ccd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529137 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 37909 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.22 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SA:2009:064 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• RHSA-2009:1548 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a866bbf6aacf95f849810079442a20be118ce905 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 38834 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 36706 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9468 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2010-0528 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2009-3613](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2009-3613.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2009-3613)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 06:31 UTC.