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CVE-2009-3620

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• 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: 2009-10-22 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-476

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 products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, 9.10
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 10
• Linux kernel: before 2.6.31.1 — fixed in 2.6.31.1
• Opensuse: 11.0
• RedHat Mrg Realtime: 1.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 10-sp2, 10-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 10-sp2, 10-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 8, 10-sp2, 10-sp3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 2.6.31.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

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=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

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