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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2026-7270

Local privilege escalation via execve()

Description

An operator precedence bug in the kernel results in a scenario where a buffer overflow causes attacker-controlled data to overwrite adjacent execve(2) argument buffers. The bug may be exploitable by an unprivileged user to obtain superuser privileges.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

FreeBSD FreeBSD

Default version status: unknown

  • 15.0-RELEASE to < p7affected
  • 14.4-RELEASE to < p3affected
  • 14.3-RELEASE to < p12affected
  • 13.5-RELEASE to < p13affected

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