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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-45259 EUVD-2026-39963

sigqueue(2) missing capability mode restriction

Published Jun 27, 2026 · Updated Jun 29, 2026 · Assigned by freebsd

Description

sigqueue(2) was marked as permitted in capability mode with the introduction of Capsicum in 2011, but the implementation of kern_sigqueue did not include a capability mode check restricting signal delivery to the calling process's own PID.

A process in capability mode can use sigqueue(2) to send signals to any process it could signal following standard Unix permissions, bypassing the Capsicum sandbox restriction. A compromised sandboxed process could interfere with other processes, for example by sending SIGKILL or SIGSTOP. This could be any process running as the same user, or any process, for a superuser sandboxed process.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
FreeBSD FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE – < p10, 14.4-RELEASE – < p6, 14.3-RELEASE – < p15 p10

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