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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-57843 EUVD-2026-76107GHSA-p59p-jjhh-5885

NetBSD mm_open() PK_KMEM Flag Kernel Pointer Information Disclosure

Published Sep 11, 2026 · Updated Oct 1, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

NetBSD contains an information disclosure vulnerability in mm_open() within sys/dev/mm.c that allows unprivileged local users to obtain real kernel virtual addresses by opening world-accessible devices such as /dev/null or /dev/zero, which incorrectly receive the PK_KMEM process flag. Attackers can exploit this misconfigured flag to bypass the CANSEE_KPTR obfuscation mechanism and read kernel virtual addresses for sensitive kernel structures including struct proc, kauth_cred, filedesc, and vmspace via sysctl KERN_PROC queries.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
The NetBSD Foundation NetBSD 9.0 – < 9.5, 10.0 – ≤ 10.1 9.5

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