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CVE-2026-49419

UNKNOWN 0.0

Jail reference count underflow

CVSS Score
0.0
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

When the JAIL_AT_DESC flag is specified, kern_jail_set() and kern_jail_get() released the reference to the caller's current prison before looking up the jail descriptor. If the descriptor lookup failed, error-handling paths released the same reference a second time. An unprivileged local user can trigger a prison reference count underflow, which may cause the prison structure to be freed while still in use. When this is done on the jail host, the bug will generally result in an immediate panic. However, if the user is running in a jail, then it may be possible to exploit the bug to elevate privileges.

CWE CWE-911
Vendor freebsd
Product freebsd
Published Aug 19, 2026
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Affected Versions

FreeBSD / FreeBSD
15.1-RELEASE < p1 15.0-RELEASE < p11

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
security.freebsd.org: https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:38.jail.asc

Credits

Yuxiang Yang, Yizhou Zhao, Ao Wang, Xuewei Feng, Qi Li, and Ke Xu from Tsinghua University using GLM-5.1 from Z.ai