CVE-2026-49428 PUBLISHED

posixshm: system calls can incorrectly free memory of largepage objects

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

Certain system calls, such open(2) with the O_TRUNC flag set, and fspacectl(2), could incorrectly free memory in largepage objects. These operations are not permitted on largepage objects, but the implementation did not verify this.

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-915: Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes CWE