VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2009-2649
CVSS score4.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.78%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-07-30
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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.