CVE-2026-23359 PUBLISHED

bpf: Fix stack-out-of-bounds write in devmap

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.01.2026 Published: 25.03.2026 Updated: 25.03.2026

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

bpf: Fix stack-out-of-bounds write in devmap

get_upper_ifindexes() iterates over all upper devices and writes their indices into an array without checking bounds.

Also the callers assume that the max number of upper devices is MAX_NEST_DEV and allocate excluded_devices[1+MAX_NEST_DEV] on the stack, but that assumption is not correct and the number of upper devices could be larger than MAX_NEST_DEV (e.g., many macvlans), causing a stack-out-of-bounds write.

Add a max parameter to get_upper_ifindexes() to avoid the issue. When there are too many upper devices, return -EOVERFLOW and abort the redirect.

To reproduce, create more than MAX_NEST_DEV(8) macvlans on a device with an XDP program attached using BPF_F_BROADCAST | BPF_F_EXCLUDE_INGRESS. Then send a packet to the device to trigger the XDP redirect path.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from aeea1b86f9363f3feabb496534d886f082a89f21 to 5000e40acc8d0c36ab709662e32120986ac22e7e (excl.)
  • affected from aeea1b86f9363f3feabb496534d886f082a89f21 to 8a95fb9df1105b1618872c2846a6c01e3ba20b45 (excl.)
  • affected from aeea1b86f9363f3feabb496534d886f082a89f21 to d2c31d8e03d05edc16656e5ffe187f0d1da763d7 (excl.)
  • affected from aeea1b86f9363f3feabb496534d886f082a89f21 to 75d474702b2ba8b6bcb26eb3004dbc5e95ffd5d2 (excl.)
  • affected from aeea1b86f9363f3feabb496534d886f082a89f21 to ca831567908fd3f73cf97d8a6c09a5054697a182 (excl.)
  • affected from aeea1b86f9363f3feabb496534d886f082a89f21 to b7bf516c3ecd9a2aae2dc2635178ab87b734fef1 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.15 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.15 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.167 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.130 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.77 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.17 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.7 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0-rc2 to * (incl.)

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