CVE-2026-104112: Illumos Illumos-Gate

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A missing release of resources in the illumos name service cache daemon (nscd) allows a local user to exhaust kernel memory. The nscd door server procedure, switcher() in usr/src/cmd/nscd/nscd_frontend.c, does not close file descriptors that are passed with a door call but not used by the request, and the main nscd door at /var/run/name_service_door accepts passed descriptors from any user in its zone. Because nscd also runs with an unlimited file descriptor limit, an unprivileged local user, including one in a non-global zone, can repeatedly pass a descriptor to its zone's nscd in a door_call() loop, causing the file descriptor table of nscd to grow without bound in kernel memory. This causes a denial of service of nscd and can render processes in all zones on the host unresponsive. The flaw has existed since 2006 (illumos-gate commit cb5caa98), and affects any illumos distribution prior to illumos-gate commit af810a72.

Affected products

• Illumos Illumos-Gate
• Omnios Omnios: from r151058, before r151058w (fixed in r151058w); from r151056, before r151056aw (fixed in r151056aw); from r151054, before r151054bw (fixed in r151054bw)

Published 2026-10-09. Last modified 2026-10-09.