CVE-2026-31413

bpf: Fix unsound scalar forking in maybe_fork_scalars() for BPF_OR

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Apr 12, 2026
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Mar 9, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix unsound scalar forking in maybe_fork_scalars() for BPF_OR

maybe_fork_scalars() is called for both BPF_AND and BPF_OR when the source operand is a constant. When dst has signed range [-1, 0], it forks the verifier state: the pushed path gets dst = 0, the current path gets dst = -1.

For BPF_AND this is correct: 0 & K == 0. For BPF_OR this is wrong: 0 | K == K, not 0.

The pushed path therefore tracks dst as 0 when the runtime value is K, producing an exploitable verifier/runtime divergence that allows out-of-bounds map access.

Fix this by passing env->insn_idx (instead of env->insn_idx + 1) to push_stack(), so the pushed path re-executes the ALU instruction with dst = 0 and naturally computes the correct result for any opcode.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • dea9989a3f3961faede93752cd81eb5a9514d911 to before 342aa1ee995ef5bbf876096dc3a5e51218d76fa4Affected
  • 4c122e8ae14950cf6b59d208fc5160f7c601e746 to before 58bd87d0e69204dbd739e4387a1edb0c4b1644e7Affected
  • e52567173ba86dbffb990595fbe60e2e83899372 to before d13281ae7ea8902b21d99d10a2c8caf0bdec0455Affected
  • bffacdb80b93b7b5e96b26fad64cc490a6c7d6c7 to before c845894ebd6fb43226b3118d6b017942550910c5Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.12.75 to before 6.12.80Affected
  • 6.18.16 to before 6.18.21Affected
  • 6.19.6 to before 6.19.11Affected

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