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TOCTOU race between sound(4) buffer resizing and mmap

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

When an audio channel's buffer needs to be resized, the sound(4) driver checks that the buffer is not memory-mapped and then drops the channel lock to allocate a new buffer. An mmap(2) call on another thread can complete during this window, after which the resize path frees the now-mapped buffer without rechecking. An unprivileged local user with access to a sound device can exploit this race to trigger a use-after-free in the kernel, potentially escalating privileges.

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CVE-2026-101308

Primary source · Revision 1

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-101308

FreeBSD

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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Structured affected-version data

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[
  {
    "vendor": "FreeBSD",
    "modules": [
      "sound"
    ],
    "product": "FreeBSD",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "15.1-RELEASE",
        "lessThan": "p5",
        "versionType": "release"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "14.5-RELEASE",
        "lessThan": "p2",
        "versionType": "release"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "14.4-RELEASE",
        "lessThan": "p11",
        "versionType": "release"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unknown"
  }
]
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CVE-2026-101308

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