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CVE-2026-49418

Use-after-free in device pager page list

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in p1, p11, p7, p16
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: total

Summary

When msync(MS_INVALIDATE) is called on a mapping of an unmanaged device object, the physical pages in the mapping range are marked invalid but remain in the pager's page list. A subsequent page fault will cause the fault handler to re-insert the page into the object's list. This corrupts the list, and on object destruction the page is freed twice. An unprivileged local user with access to a device that provides memory-mapped I/O can trigger a use-after-free in the kernel, though this is limited to a pool of objects ("fictitious pages") that are never recycled for a different purpose. It may be possible to exploit this to escalate privileges.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • FreeBSD FreeBSD

    From 15.1-RELEASE · fixed in p1; From 15.0-RELEASE · fixed in p11; From 14.4-RELEASE · fixed in p7; From 14.3-RELEASE · fixed in p16

References 1

security.freebsd.org