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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 30, 2009· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2009-2649

CVE-2009-2649

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.

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Affected products

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  • FreeBSD/FreeBSD3 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)range: 6.0, 8.0

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