CVE-2026-58099

High

Description

When copying knotes from a parent kqueue to a child, the copy code did not correctly exclude marker knotes (used internally to track list traversal position) before marking them as in-flux and releasing the kqueue lock. If another thread freed a marker while the lock was dropped, the subsequent in-flux decrement operated on freed memory. An unprivileged local user may be able to exploit these races to escalate privileges.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.0
Exploit probability—
ProductFreebsd
PublishedOct 15, 2026
First seenOct 15, 2026

How to fix

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
freebsd freebsd15.1—

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