Vulnerability in Freebsd

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.

EPSS: 0.008 (52.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 6.0, 8.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
cve@mitre.org (exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)