CVE-2009-2649 Information

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.

Reference

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