CVE-2026-49427: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Pages belonging to largepage shared memory objects were not explicitly wired. When sendfile(2) transmitted such an object with the SF_NOCACHE flag, it freed the underlying pages after transmission even though existing mappings still referred to them. An unprivileged local user can abuse the bug to access freed kernel memory. This can be exploited to escalate privileges.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 14.3 only; version 14.4 only; version 15.0 only; version 15.1 only

Published 2026-08-19. Last modified 2026-09-01.