CVE-2026-31525 PUBLISHED

bpf: Fix undefined behavior in interpreter sdiv/smod for INT_MIN

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.03.2026 Published: 22.04.2026 Updated: 22.04.2026

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

bpf: Fix undefined behavior in interpreter sdiv/smod for INT_MIN

The BPF interpreter's signed 32-bit division and modulo handlers use the kernel abs() macro on s32 operands. The abs() macro documentation (include/linux/math.h) explicitly states the result is undefined when the input is the type minimum. When DST contains S32_MIN (0x80000000), abs((s32)DST) triggers undefined behavior and returns S32_MIN unchanged on arm64/x86. This value is then sign-extended to u64 as 0xFFFFFFFF80000000, causing do_div() to compute the wrong result.

The verifier's abstract interpretation (scalar32_min_max_sdiv) computes the mathematically correct result for range tracking, creating a verifier/interpreter mismatch that can be exploited for out-of-bounds map value access.

Introduce abs_s32() which handles S32_MIN correctly by casting to u32 before negating, avoiding signed overflow entirely. Replace all 8 abs((s32)...) call sites in the interpreter's sdiv32/smod32 handlers.

s32 is the only affected case -- the s64 division/modulo handlers do not use abs().

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ec0e2da95f72d4a46050a4d994e4fe471474fd80 to 694ea55f1b1c74f9942d91ec366ae9e822422e42 (excl.)
  • affected from ec0e2da95f72d4a46050a4d994e4fe471474fd80 to 9ab1227765c446942f290c83382f0b19887c55cf (excl.)
  • affected from ec0e2da95f72d4a46050a4d994e4fe471474fd80 to f14ca604c0ff274fba19f73f1f0485c0047c1396 (excl.)
  • affected from ec0e2da95f72d4a46050a4d994e4fe471474fd80 to 0d5d8c3ce45c734aaf3c51cbef59155a6746157d (excl.)
  • affected from ec0e2da95f72d4a46050a4d994e4fe471474fd80 to c77b30bd1dcb61f66c640ff7d2757816210c7cb0 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.6 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.6 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.131 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • 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 to * (incl.)

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