CVE-2009-3620 Information

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.

Reference

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/892259 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7dc482dfeeeefcfd000d4271c4626937406756d7 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 http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000082.html http://secunia.com/advisories/36707 http://secunia.com/advisories/37909 http://secunia.com/advisories/38794 http://secunia.com/advisories/38834 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.31-git11.log http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:088 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:198 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/19/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/10/19/3 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1670.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1671.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0882.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36824 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-864-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0528 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529597 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A6763 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9891 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1540.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00190.html