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============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-26:53.ktrace Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project

Topic: ktrace(2) privilege incorrectly validated in jails

Category: core
Module: ktrace
Announced: 2026-07-29
Credits: Alexander Leidinger
Affects: FreeBSD 15.1 and 15.0
Corrected: 2026-07-29 17:48:42 UTC (stable/15, 15.1-STABLE)
2026-07-29 17:50:35 UTC (releng/15.1, 15.1-RELEASE-p2)
2026-07-29 17:50:09 UTC (releng/15.0, 15.0-RELEASE-p12)
CVE Name: CVE-2026-58086

For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit <URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>.

I. Background

The ktrace(2) facility allows tracing of kernel operations performed by a process. When ktrace(2) tracing is configured on a target process by a user that has the PRIV_KTRACE privilege (typically just the root user), the
process is flagged such that an unprivileged user cannot modify the tracing flags, even if that user would otherwise be able to invoke ktrace(2) on the process.

II. Problem Description

As an inadvertent side effect of an unrelated code change, PRIV_KTRACE was always denied to a jailed root user. Tracing configured by a jailed root
user was therefore not flagged as privileged.

III. Impact

An unprivileged user in a jail that has permission to debug the target
process can modify the jailed root user's ktrace(2) flags, or disable tracing outright. A jailed root user therefore cannot reliably trace unprivileged processes.

IV. Workaround

No workaround is available.

V. Solution

Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or
release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date,
and reboot the system.

Perform one of the following:

1) To update your vulnerable system installed from base system packages:

Systems running a 15.0-RELEASE or later version of FreeBSD on the amd64 or arm64 platforms, which were installed using base system packages, can be updated via the pkg(8) utility:

# pkg upgrade -r FreeBSD-base
# shutdown -r +10min "Rebooting for a security update"

2) To update your vulnerable system installed from binary distribution sets:

Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the amd64 or arm64 platforms which were not installed using base system packages can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility:

# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
# shutdown -r +10min "Rebooting for a security update"

3) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch:

The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable
FreeBSD release branches.

a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.

# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-26:53/ktrace.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-26:53/ktrace.patch.asc
# gpg --verify ktrace.patch.asc

b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root:

# cd /usr/src
# patch -E -p0 < /path/to/patch

c) Recompile your kernel as described in <URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html> and reboot the
system.

VI. Correction details

This issue is corrected as of the corresponding Git commit hash in the following stable and release branches:

Branch/path Hash Revision
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/15/ fb432f55a7b8 stable/15-n284646 releng/15.1/ 00effd2ab0bf releng/15.1-n283593 releng/15.0/ 8250729075f1 releng/15.0-n281096
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Run the following command to see which files were modified by a
particular commit:

# git show --stat <commit hash>

Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the hash:

<URL:https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=NNNNNN>

To determine the commit count in a working tree (for comparison against
nNNNNNN in the table above), run:

# git rev-list --count --first-parent HEAD

VII. References

<URL:https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-58086>

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