CVE-2026-45927 PUBLISHED

bpf: Require frozen map for calculating map hash

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 13.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

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

bpf: Require frozen map for calculating map hash

Currently, bpf_map_get_info_by_fd calculates and caches the hash of the map regardless of the map's frozen state.

This leads to a TOCTOU bug where userspace can call BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD to cache the hash and then modify the map contents before freezing.

Therefore, a trusted loader can be tricked into verifying the stale hash while loading the modified contents.

Fix this by returning -EPERM if the map is not frozen when the hash is requested. This ensures the hash is only generated for the final, immutable state of the map.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from ea2e6467ac36bf3d785defc89e58269b15d182f7 to 7752d36343862323bbeea4ce3adf0ec2ed86e122 (excl.)
  • affected from ea2e6467ac36bf3d785defc89e58269b15d182f7 to f415e114b58fe02c41191e47f24bdabb438daf72 (excl.)
  • affected from ea2e6467ac36bf3d785defc89e58269b15d182f7 to a2c86aa621c22f2a7e26c654f936d65cfff0aa91 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.18 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.18 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.14 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.4 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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