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Re: CVE-2026-45250: FreeBSD setcred(2) stack overflow -> local privilege escalation (FatGid)
From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen () sdaoden eu>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 22:53:33 +0200
Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote in <63a2f265-6bbd-4799-b33d-1e9939d5c004 () frasunek com>: |A kernel stack buffer overflow exists in the setcred(2) system call |introduced in FreeBSD 14.x. The overflow occurs before any privilege |check, allowing any unprivileged local user to trigger anything from a |kernel panic to full local privilege escalation. ... | Not affected: | FreeBSD main (silently fixed in commit 000d5b5, 2025-11-27) You mean 4cd93df95e (2025-11-14), then got fixed by the mentioned due to some other problem. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
Current thread:
- CVE-2026-45250: FreeBSD setcred(2) stack overflow -> local privilege escalation (FatGid) Przemyslaw Frasunek (May 21)
- Re: CVE-2026-45250: FreeBSD setcred(2) stack overflow -> local privilege escalation (FatGid) Steffen Nurpmeso (May 21)
- Re: CVE-2026-45250: FreeBSD setcred(2) stack overflow -> local privilege escalation (FatGid) Przemyslaw Frasunek (May 21)
- Re: CVE-2026-45250: FreeBSD setcred(2) stack overflow -> local privilege escalation (FatGid) Steffen Nurpmeso (May 21)
