CVE-2026-45258
Multiple vulnerabilities in the sound(4) mmap path
Vexday Risk Score
23Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Attend
PoC available → attend closely
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado
Lifecycle
10 Jun 2026Public PoC
27 Jun 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.
dsp_mmap_single() validated the requested mapping by checking the sum of the user-supplied offset and length against the buffer size. This addition could overflow, so that a large offset and length wrapped around and passed the check. The offset was then narrowed from 64 to 32 bits when converted to a buffer address, yielding a mapping that extended past the audio buffer into unrelated kernel memory.
The /dev/dsp device nodes are world-accessible by default. On a system with an audio device, either issue allows an unprivileged local user to read and write kernel memory, which can be used to escalate privileges, potentially gaining full control of the affected system. At a minimum, an attacker can crash the kernel, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
Affected products
FreeBSD · FreeBSDpublic PoCs found — 1
githubgithub.com/Yayoi-cs/CVE-2026-45258_1day_LPE_exploit★ 0⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
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