CVE-2026-49428: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Certain system calls, such open(2) with the O_TRUNC flag set, and fspacectl(2), could incorrectly free memory in largepage objects. These operations are not permitted on largepage objects, but the implementation did not verify this. 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.