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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-3620 Detail

Description

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.


Metrics

 
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/892259 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7dc482dfeeeefcfd000d4271c4626937406756d7 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00002.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List 
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/36707 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/37909 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.31-git11.log CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Patch 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:088 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/19/1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/19/3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Patch 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1670.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1671.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0882.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36824 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529597 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6763 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9891 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Release Notes 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-3620
NVD Published Date:
10/22/2009
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.