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CVE-2009-3613

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2009-10-19 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References