CVE-2009-3620 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ATI Rage 128 driver (r128) within the Linux kernel, affecting versions prior to 2.6.31-git11, including distributions like Canonical, Fedora, and Red Hat. This flaw, rated 7.8 HIGH, allows a local attacker to trigger a NULL pointer dereference and system crash, or potentially escalate privileges, through unverified Concurrent Command Engine (CCE) state initialization via specific ioctl calls. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.6.31.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.06CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
8.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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