Use after free in the kitty drag and drop protocol when a drag source item is aborted mid-transfer
Use After Free in the drag source path of the drag and drop protocol in kitty from 0.47.0 before 0.49.0 allows a program writing to the terminal to cause the terminal to read from and write to freed heap memory, because drag_remote_file_data() in kitty/dnd.c holds a DragRemoteItem pointer into an array it does not own, calls toplevel_data_for_drag() or subdir_data_for_drag(), and then continues to use that pointer. Those helpers, and add_payload() and populate_dir_entries() which they call, report errors through the abrt() macro, which expands to cancel_drag() followed by a plain return, and cancel_drag() calls drag_free_offer(), which frees the array the pointer refers to. The helpers return void, so the caller receives no indication that the teardown happened, and proceeds to call all_children_complete() on the freed pointer, which dereferences it, and then to write through it. That dereference is guarded by a local flag that is set when the request carries no payload and announces no further data, which is the same condition that selects the finalisation block of add_payload(), so the error paths in that block reach it: a create that fails because an entry of the same name already exists, because the client may declare two entries with one name and the create operations use O_CREAT with O_EXCL and symlinkat(), a mkdirat() failure other than EEXIST, and the directory entry allocation paths. Both branches reach it. In the top level branch the caller's pointer is never cleare
CVE-2026-95834
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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-95834
kitty
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
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[
{
"repo": "https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty",
"vendor": "Kovid Goyal",
"product": "kitty",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0.47.0",
"lessThan": "0.49.0",
"versionType": "semver"
}
],
"programFiles": [
"kitty/dnd.c"
],
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-95834
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- #2195 · Revision 1
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