CVE-2009-2649 describes a local denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the IATA (ata) driver in FreeBSD versions 6.0 and 8.0. An attacker with read access to /dev can trigger a kernel panic by sending a crafted IOCTL request with a large count, leading to an excessive malloc call. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.7 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C), indicating a local attack vector with medium attack complexity and a high impact on availability. While not actively exploited in the wild and not on the KEV catalog, a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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