FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation
WhyNotHugo
92 points
40 comments
May 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (5 comments)
socphoenix
Not sure why this is saying it isn’t patched, they released the notice including fix for 14.4 yesterday?
turkeyboi
Why does this need to be a whole ass website
djha-skin
TrueNAS is on FreeBSD, as well as lots of network equipment. This does affect us more than we think as operators.
badgersnake
LPEs are really not impressive enough to warrant names and websites.
CodeCompost
I'm curious to see how many issues an LLM can find for OpenBSD. Not knocking OpenBSD at all, genuinely curious to see if all the careful development can stand up to LLMs.