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CVE-2009-2649

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-07-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: 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 products

• FreeBSD: 6.0, 8.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35645
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022538
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9134
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35645
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022538
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9134

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