Buffer overflow in FreeBSD - CVE-2025-15547

 

Buffer overflow in FreeBSD - CVE-2025-15547

Published: April 22, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU126827
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-15547
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local privileged user to escape the jail filesystem root.

The vulnerability exists due to improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer in the kernel path lookup logic when mounting nullfs filesystems from within a jail. A local privileged user can mount a nullfs directory to escape the jail filesystem root.

Only jails configured with the allow.mount.nullfs option are vulnerable.


Affected software

FreeBSD

How to mitigate CVE-2025-15547

Install security update from vendor's website.


External References

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