CWE-224

Obscured Security-relevant Information by Alternate Name

The product records security-relevant information according to an alternate name of the affected entity, instead of the canonical name.

CVE-2026-49426 (GCVE-0-2026-49426)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-19 06:04
Modified
2026-08-26 17:44
CWE
  • CWE-223 - Omission of Security-relevant Information
  • CWE-224 - Obscured Security-relevant Information by Alternate Name
Summary
When auditing a system call executed via ptrace(PT_SC_REMOTE), the kernel passed the return value of an internal setup function to AUDIT_SYSCALL_EXIT() rather than the actual result of the executed system call. As a result, committed audit records for system calls which returned an error do not reflect the true outcome of the operation. That is, they indicate that the operation succeeded when it in fact failed. Audit records for system calls executed via ptrace(PT_SC_REMOTE) may show an incorrect error status. An attacker with the ability to debug a process could use this to produce misleading audit trails, potentially undermining audit-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS).
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
FreeBSD FreeBSD Version: 15.1-RELEASE
Version: 15.0-RELEASE
Version: 14.4-RELEASE
Version: 14.3-RELEASE
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