Memory safety bugs in kqueue copy-on-fork implementation

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When copying knotes from a parent kqueue to a child, the copy code did not correctly exclude marker knotes (used internally to track list traversal position) before marking them as in-flux and releasing the kqueue lock. If another thread freed a marker while the lock was dropped, the subsequent in-flux decrement operated on freed memory. An unprivileged local user may be able to exploit these races to escalate privileges.

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15 Oct 2026 06:31:18 UTC

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19 Oct 2026 14:10:47 UTC

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23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC

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