CVE-2009-1389: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 5.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the RTL8169 NIC driver (drivers/net/r8169.c) in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel memory corruption and crash) via a long packet.

Affected products

• Linux Kernel: version 2.6.24.7 only; version 2.6.25.15 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.2.6 only; version 2.6 only; version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.2.27.13 only; …

Published 2009-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.