Vulnerability in FreeBSD

[ Description ]Official description

kqueue_fork_copy_knote() indexed into the child's file descriptor table using a knote's file descriptor number without a bounds check. Because the child's table is copied before knotes are transferred, a concurrent thread in the parent could grow the parent's table and register knotes with file descriptor numbers beyond the end of the child's table, causing an out-of-bounds read. An unprivileged local user may be able to exploit these races to escalate privileges.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• BSI CERT-Bund29 Sep 2026WID-SEC-2026-3664

  FreeBSD Project FreeBSD OS: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  CVE-2026-84783CVE-2026-101305CVE-2026-101306+7 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:65.kqueue.ascVendor Advisory