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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
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