CVE-2009-3613 Information

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.

Reference

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9468 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=97d477a914b146e7e6722ded21afa79886ae8ccd http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a866bbf6aacf95f849810079442a20be118ce905 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-12/msg00005.html http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125561712529352&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/37909 http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.22 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1671.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36706 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529137 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10209 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A7377 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1548.html