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Fixed
Local privilege escalation via execve()
FreeBSD-SA-26:13.exec · CVE-2026-7270
Our decision for FreeSense
FreeBSD corrected this on 2026-04-29, before the FreeBSD source pin of every FreeSense version.
- Advisory: corrected 2026-04-29
- FreeSense 1.0 pin: e004ff15f87e (2026-08-03)
- FreeSense 1.1 pin: a52c50b4b7c2 (2026-10-04)
- FreeSense 1.2 pin: a52c50b4b7c2 (2026-10-04)
Decided by rules, not yet reviewed. The status comes from the advisory's correction date and the build configuration. A maintainer has not looked at whether FreeSense is exposed in practice. How we triage
By FreeSense version
| Version | Status | FreeBSD pin |
|---|---|---|
| FreeSense 1.01.0.7 · frozen, no further fixes | FixedFreeBSD pin of 2026-08-03 | 2026-08-03e004ff15 |
| FreeSense 1.11.1.9 | FixedFreeBSD pin of 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-04a52c50b4 |
| FreeSense 1.21.2.0-DEVELOPMENT | FixedFreeBSD pin of 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-04a52c50b4 |
Workaround
No workaround is available.
What FreeBSD says
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.
Impact
The bug may be exploitable by an unprivileged user to obtain superuser privileges.
Excerpt from the FreeBSD advisory. Read the original for the full text and the fix.