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NetBSD contains an information disclosure vulnerability in mm_open() within sys/dev/mm.c that allows unprivileged local users to obtain real kernel virtual addresses by opening world-accessible devic…

Medium CVSS 5.5
CVECVE-2026-57843
First seen2026-09-18 19:16 UTC
Disclosed2026-09-11 14:17 UTC
Last updated2026-09-18 19:16 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

NetBSD contains an information disclosure vulnerability in mm_open() within sys/dev/mm.c that allows unprivileged local users to obtain real kernel virtual addresses by opening world-accessible devices such as /dev/null or /dev/zero, which incorrectly receive the PK_KMEM process flag. Attackers can exploit this misconfigured flag to bypass the CANSEE_KPTR obfuscation mechanism and read kernel virtual addresses for sensitive kernel structures including struct proc, kauth_cred, filedesc, and vmsp…

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Sources

  • NVD DATABASE

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Timeline

  1. nvd_ingest NVD