VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2009-3613
CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability12.46%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-10-19
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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.