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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-49414 EUVD-2026-39966

ASLR bypass for setuid executables via procctl(2)

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

Description

The ELF image activator cleared per-process ASLR preference flags for setuid binaries after the code that computes the PIE base address, rather than before. As a result, a user-requested ASLR disable was still in effect at the point where the base address was chosen.

An unprivileged local user can disable ASLR for a setuid PIE binary by calling procctl(2) before execve(2). This makes exploitation of any separate memory corruption vulnerability in that binary significantly easier.

Affected products

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

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