vulnerability

FreeBSD: VID-13d37672-9791-11eb-b87a-901b0ef719ab (CVE-2021-29626): FreeBSD -- Memory disclosure by stale virtual memory mapping

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 7, 2021
Added
Nov 4, 2022
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

Problem Description: A particular case of memory sharing is mishandled in the virtual memory system. It is possible and legal to establish a relationship where multiple descendant processes share a mapping which shadows memory of an ancestor process. In this scenario, when one process modifies memory through such a mapping, the copy-on-write logic fails to invalidate other mappings of the source page. These stale mappings may remain even after the mapped pages have been reused for another purpose. Impact: An unprivileged local user process can maintain a mapping of a page after it is freed, allowing that process to read private data belonging to other processes or the kernel.

Solutions

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