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.
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Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:00:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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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: 2026-08-19T05:56:53.494Z
Reserved: 2026-05-29T20:24:28.616Z
Link: CVE-2026-49427
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-19T06:17:41.977
Modified: 2026-08-19T06:17:41.977
Link: CVE-2026-49427
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