# CVE-2026-15449: TOCTOU double copyin in illumos dld ioctl handling causes kernel heap corruption

- Severity: CVSS 5.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: r151054, r151058j, r151056aj, r151054bj, 20260709
- Published: 2026-07-16 · Updated: 2026-07-17

## Affected

- illumos illumos-gate: version range not reported
- OmniOS: fixed in r151054; from r151058, fixed in r151058j; from r151056, fixed in r151056aj; from r151054, fixed in r151054bj
- Triton Data Center SmartOS: fixed in 20260709

## Description

A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) flaw in the illumos data-link pseudo-driver (dld) affects handling of the DLDIOC_GETMACPROP and DLDIOC_SETMACPROP ioctls on /dev/dld. drv_ioc_prop_common() in usr/src/uts/common/io/dld/dld_drv.c copies the dld_ioc_macprop_t ioctl header in once to read its pr_valsize field, sizes and allocates a kernel heap buffer from that value, and then copies the full request in a second time from the same unprivileged user address. A concurrent thread can enlarge pr_valsize between the two copyins, so the second copyin and the subsequent property handling write beyond the end of the undersized allocation and corrupt the kernel heap. An unprivileged local user, including one confined to a non-global zone that owns a datalink, can trigger this to panic the system. The resulting kernel heap corruption may be usable for further compromise.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on illumos illumos-gate, OmniOS, Triton Data Center SmartOS, upgrade to a fixed version (r151054, r151058j, r151056aj, r151054bj, 20260709) per the references below.
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## References

- https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T923147fae854a738-M03c29e1be33dac2a5e3d9535/18020-double-copyin-of-dldioc-consumers
- https://illumos.org/issues/18020
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/6959feb5b430411a4809b06c53dcdb42fb525eac

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