CVE-2026-92515

bpf: Preserve unique-field state across nested structs

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 16, 2026

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Description

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

bpf: Preserve unique-field state across nested structs

btf_find_struct_field() initializes a fresh seen mask for every recursive descent. Unique special fields in different levels of the same aggregate therefore do not see one another. The duplicate fields can reach btf_parse_fields(), where they trigger an invariant WARN_ON_ONCE(). A crafted user BTF can consequently trigger the warning before map creation checks capabilities.

Initialize the seen mask once in btf_find_field() and pass the same pointer through struct, datasec, and nested-struct walks. This gives the entire field traversal one shared uniqueness state.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 64e8ee814819f21beeeda00d4119221443d77992 to before cec97102d4147e18568c93946014c4c8ebf86fcfAffected
  • 64e8ee814819f21beeeda00d4119221443d77992 to before 28d5f20ed022ade0fb0bfbf50b78fec782083175Affected
  • 64e8ee814819f21beeeda00d4119221443d77992 to before 373a1e9366e711b89bc5e45bd6edf33ef62402cdAffected
  • 64e8ee814819f21beeeda00d4119221443d77992 to before f08619f060468076e4acbdc10e0713af20d60e65Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.11Affected
  • before 6.11Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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