CVE-2026-15449CWE-122CWE-367

TOCTOU double copyin in illumos dld ioctl handling causes kernel heap corruption

Medium · published July 16, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) flaw in the illumos data-link pseudo-driver (dld) affects handling of the DLDIOC_GETMACPROP and DLDIOC_SETMACPROP ioctls on /dev/dld. drv_ioc_prop_common() in usr/src/uts/common/io/dld/dld_drv.c copies the dld_ioc_macprop_t ioctl header in once to read its pr_valsize field, sizes and allocates a kernel heap buffer from that value, and then copies the full request in a second time from the same unprivileged user address. A concurrent thread can enlarge pr_valsize between the two copyins, so the second copyin and the subsequent property handling write beyond the end of the undersized allocation and corrupt the kernel heap. An unprivileged local user, including one confined to a non-global zone that owns a datalink, can trigger this to panic the system. The resulting kernel heap corruption may be usable for further compromise.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00116 · 1.5th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-122 · Heap-based Buffer Overflow; CWE-367 · Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Published
2026-07-16T19:27Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 JUL 19:27Z
    TOCTOU double copyin in illumos dld ioctl handling causes kernel heap corruption
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