CVE-2026-98611

bpf: Check params size before reading reserved fields

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 18, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

bpf: Check params size before reading reserved fields

bpf_crypto_ctx_create() is a kfunc whose second argument is declared with the __sz annotation, so the verifier only guarantees that params__sz bytes of params are valid. The function nevertheless reads params->reserved[0] and params->reserved[1] (offsets 14 and 15) before comparing params__sz against the size of struct bpf_crypto_params, so a BPF program can pass a shorter buffer and have the kernel read past the region that was validated for it.

Move the size check in front of the reserved field reads.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 3e1c6f35409f9e447bf37f64840f5b65576bfb78 to before e03253f5d65ebcd2a6d479f140c3bd9c7e4fb84aAffected
  • 3e1c6f35409f9e447bf37f64840f5b65576bfb78 to before cd12d3e08620257fbcaa262785d7f4b9473afc7aAffected
  • 3e1c6f35409f9e447bf37f64840f5b65576bfb78 to before 86a0e945fb645ea90233fde239cd2de79f01974cAffected
  • 3e1c6f35409f9e447bf37f64840f5b65576bfb78 to before a11212910cf09b2fe8db9afa41ef60c4f81879c5Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.10Affected
  • before 6.10Not affected
  • 6.12.112 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.55 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.9 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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