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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-101308 EUVD-2026-101883GHSA-pmrj-w7pv-p57q

TOCTOU race between sound(4) buffer resizing and mmap

Published Oct 15, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Assigned by freebsd

Description

When an audio channel's buffer needs to be resized, the sound(4) driver checks that the buffer is not memory-mapped and then drops the channel lock to allocate a new buffer. An mmap(2) call on another thread can complete during this window, after which the resize path frees the now-mapped buffer without rechecking.

An unprivileged local user with access to a sound device can exploit this race to trigger a use-after-free in the kernel, potentially escalating privileges.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
FreeBSD FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE – < p5, 14.5-RELEASE – < p2, 14.4-RELEASE – < p11 p5

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