CVE-2026-49424: medium-severity vulnerability in FreeBSD
Kernel stack disclosure in Linux compatibility layer
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.5epss 0.2%
The Linux waitid() implementation translates a FreeBSD siginfo_t struct into a stack-declared Linux siginfo_t. It did not first zero the stack struct.
An unprivileged user may observe 104 bytes of uninitialized kernel stack data, which may contain sensitive information.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
FreeBSD · FreeBSDRelated CVEs — FreeBSD
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