CVE-2026-49427 PUBLISHED

posixshm: largepage shared memory objects not explicitly wired

Assigner: freebsd
Reserved: 29.05.2026 Published: 19.08.2026 Updated: 19.08.2026

Pages belonging to largepage shared memory objects were not explicitly wired. When sendfile(2) transmitted such an object with the SF_NOCACHE flag, it freed the underlying pages after transmission even though existing mappings still referred to them.

An unprivileged local user can abuse the bug to access freed kernel memory. This can be exploited to escalate privileges.

Product Status

Vendor FreeBSD
Product FreeBSD
Versions Default: unknown
  • affected from 15.1-RELEASE to p1 (excl.)
  • affected from 15.0-RELEASE to p11 (excl.)
  • affected from 14.4-RELEASE to p7 (excl.)
  • affected from 14.3-RELEASE to p16 (excl.)

Credits

  • Chris Jarrett-Davies of the OpenAI Codex Security Team finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-826: Premature Release of Resource During Expected Lifetime CWE