CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2649

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2009-07-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-07-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

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 configurations

• freebsd freebsd 6.0 • freebsd freebsd 8.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References