Description
When copying knotes from a parent kqueue to a child, the copy code did not correctly exclude marker knotes (used internally to track list traversal position) before marking them as in-flux and releasing the kqueue lock. If another thread freed a marker while the lock was dropped, the subsequent in-flux decrement operated on freed memory.

An unprivileged local user may be able to exploit these races to escalate privileges.
Published: 2026-10-15
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EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:45:00 +0000

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Description When copying knotes from a parent kqueue to a child, the copy code did not correctly exclude marker knotes (used internally to track list traversal position) before marking them as in-flux and releasing the kqueue lock. If another thread freed a marker while the lock was dropped, the subsequent in-flux decrement operated on freed memory. An unprivileged local user may be able to exploit these races to escalate privileges.
Title Memory safety bugs in kqueue copy-on-fork implementation
Weaknesses CWE-362
CWE-416
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: freebsd

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-15T06:31:18.042Z

Reserved: 2026-06-29T01:40:17.499Z

Link: CVE-2026-58099

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Published: 2026-10-15T07:18:02.373

Modified: 2026-10-15T16:17:41.437

Link: CVE-2026-58099

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Updated: 2026-10-15T12:00:18Z

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