CVE-2026-23417 PUBLISHED

bpf: Fix constant blinding for PROBE_MEM32 stores

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.01.2026 Published: 02.04.2026 Updated: 02.04.2026

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

bpf: Fix constant blinding for PROBE_MEM32 stores

BPF_ST | BPF_PROBE_MEM32 immediate stores are not handled by bpf_jit_blind_insn(), allowing user-controlled 32-bit immediates to survive unblinded into JIT-compiled native code when bpf_jit_harden >= 1.

The root cause is that convert_ctx_accesses() rewrites BPF_ST|BPF_MEM to BPF_ST|BPF_PROBE_MEM32 for arena pointer stores during verification, before bpf_jit_blind_constants() runs during JIT compilation. The blinding switch only matches BPF_ST|BPF_MEM (mode 0x60), not BPF_ST|BPF_PROBE_MEM32 (mode 0xa0). The instruction falls through unblinded.

Add BPF_ST|BPF_PROBE_MEM32 cases to bpf_jit_blind_insn() alongside the existing BPF_ST|BPF_MEM cases. The blinding transformation is identical: load the blinded immediate into BPF_REG_AX via mov+xor, then convert the immediate store to a register store (BPF_STX).

The rewritten STX instruction must preserve the BPF_PROBE_MEM32 mode so the architecture JIT emits the correct arena addressing (R12-based on x86-64). Cannot use the BPF_STX_MEM() macro here because it hardcodes BPF_MEM mode; construct the instruction directly instead.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 6082b6c328b5486da2b356eae94b8b83c98b5565 to 56af722756ed82fee2ae5d5b4d04743407506195 (excl.)
  • affected from 6082b6c328b5486da2b356eae94b8b83c98b5565 to ccbf29b28b5554f9d65b2fb53b994673ad58b3bf (excl.)
  • affected from 6082b6c328b5486da2b356eae94b8b83c98b5565 to de641ea08f8fff6906e169d2576c2ac54e562fbb (excl.)
  • affected from 6082b6c328b5486da2b356eae94b8b83c98b5565 to 2321a9596d2260310267622e0ad8fbfa6f95378f (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.9 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.80 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.21 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.11 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0-rc5 to * (incl.)

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