CVE-2009-3620

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.

Affected Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-476, CWE-908

References

• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/892259
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=…
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00002.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.html