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Medium · 5.8 CVE-2026-15449 EUVD-2026-45034GHSA-5jqp-7hrf-w792

TOCTOU double copyin in illumos dld ioctl handling causes kernel heap corruption

Published Jul 16, 2026 · Updated Jul 17, 2026 · Assigned by illumos

Description

A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) flaw in the illumos data-link pseudo-driver (dld) affects handling of the DLDIOC_GETMACPROP and DLDIOC_SETMACPROP ioctls on /dev/dld. drv_ioc_prop_common() in usr/src/uts/common/io/dld/dld_drv.c copies the dld_ioc_macprop_t ioctl header in once to read its pr_valsize field, sizes and allocates a kernel heap buffer from that value, and then copies the full request in a second time from the same unprivileged user address. A concurrent thread can enlarge pr_valsize between the two copyins, so the second copyin and the subsequent property handling write beyond the end of the undersized allocation and corrupt the kernel heap. An unprivileged local user, including one confined to a non-global zone that owns a datalink, can trigger this to panic the system. The resulting kernel heap corruption may be usable for further compromise.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
illumos illumos-gate — —
OmniOS OmniOS any – < r151054, r151058 – < r151058j, r151056 – < r151056aj, r151054 – < r151054bj r151054
Triton Data Center SmartOS any – < 202060709 202060709

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