CVE-2026-57842 PUBLISHED

NetBSD COMPAT_NETBSD32 Double Free / Use-After-Free via recvmsg() msg_iovlen

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 25.06.2026 Published: 11.09.2026 Updated: 11.09.2026

NetBSD contains a use-after-free and double-free vulnerability in msg_recv_copyin() within the COMPAT_NETBSD32 compatibility layer due to a missing return statement before the cleanup label on the success path. Any local user able to execute a 32-bit binary on a 64-bit NetBSD system can trigger a kernel panic or memory corruption by calling recvmsg() with msg_iovlen between 9 and IOV_MAX, causing the kernel to access a freed iovec buffer and subsequently free the same allocation a second time.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 7.3

Product Status

Vendor The NetBSD Foundation
Product NetBSD
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8.0 to 8.3 (incl.)
  • affected from 9.0 to 9.5 (excl.)
  • affected from 10.0 to 10.1 (incl.)

Credits

  • Tristan CLERC finder
  • VulnCheck coordinator

References

Problem Types

  • Double Free CWE
  • Use After Free CWE