An unprivileged local user can abuse the bug to access freed kernel memory. This can be exploited to escalate privileges.
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Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | posixshm: largepage shared memory objects not explicitly wired | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-826 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: freebsd
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-20T18:35:54.694Z
Reserved: 2026-05-29T20:24:28.616Z
Link: CVE-2026-49427
Updated: 2026-08-20T18:35:51.151Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-08-19T06:17:41.977
Modified: 2026-08-26T16:54:50.030
Link: CVE-2026-49427
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