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CVE-2009-3080

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-11-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-129

Description

Array index error in the gdth_read_event function in drivers/scsi/gdth.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.32-rc8 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges via a negative event index in an IOCTL request.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10
• Debian Linux: 4.0
• Linux kernel: through 2.6.31.6; 2.6.32, 2.6.32-rc1, 2.6.32-rc3, 2.6.32-rc4, 2.6.32-rc5
• Opensuse: 11.1, 11.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 5.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Workstation: 5.0
• RedHat Fedora: 10
• RedHat Virtualization: 5.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 10-sp2, 10-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 10-sp2, 10-sp3
• VMware ESX: 3.5

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=690e744869f3262855b83b4fb59199cf142765b0
• 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/2010-01/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-01/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-02/msg00007.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37435
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37720
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37909
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38017
• http://secunia.com/advisories/38276
• http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100073666

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