CVE-2009-2649 - 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

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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

Published Jul 30, 2009

4.7

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.78%

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 products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35645
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022538
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9134
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35645		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022538		vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9134		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jul 30, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Jul 30, 2009

Link CVE-2009-2649

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2009-2649

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2009-2649