Security Advisory

CVE-2009-2649

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-07-30 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 05:59:56
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.