First published: Thu Jul 30 2009(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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FreeBSD FreeBSD | =8.0 | |
FreeBSD FreeBSD | =6.0 |
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