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CVE-2009-2649

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.7 Published: 2009-07-30 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The IATA (ata) driver in FreeBSD 6.0 and 8.0, when read access to /dev is available, allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a certain IOCTL request with a large count, which triggers a malloc call with a large value.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References