CVE-2026-45250

Stack buffer overflow via setcred(2)

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 21, 2026
Updated
May 22, 2026
Reserved
May 11, 2026

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Description

The setcred(2) system call is only available to privileged users. However, before the privilege level of the caller is checked, the user-supplied list of supplementary groups is copied into a fixed-size kernel stack buffer without first validating its length. If the supplied list exceeds the capacity of that buffer, a stack buffer overflow occurs.

Because the bounds check on the supplementary groups list occurs after the kernel stack buffer has already been written, an unprivileged local user may trigger the overflow without holding any special privilege. Successful exploitation may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel, allowing an unprivileged local user to gain elevated privileges on the affected system.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
FreeBSDFreeBSD
  • 15.0-RELEASE to before p9Affected
  • 14.4-RELEASE to before p5Affected
  • 14.3-RELEASE to before p14Affected

References

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