CVE-2026-74736 PUBLISHED

net/sched: cls_bpf: reject dev-bound programs bound to a different device

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 26.08.2026 Updated: 26.08.2026

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

net/sched: cls_bpf: reject dev-bound programs bound to a different device

cls_bpf_prog_from_efd() obtained a SCHED_CLS program via bpf_prog_get_type_dev() but never verified that a device-bound (offloaded) program's bound netdev matches the TC netdev the classifier is being attached to. This let a program loaded with prog_ifindex for device A be attached via cls_bpf + skip_sw to device B; deleting device A then destroyed the program's offload state while it was still attached to device B, triggering a netdevsim WARN (panic with panic_on_warn=1).

Mirror the XDP attach path (net/core/dev.c) and reject the attach with -EINVAL when a dev-bound program's bound device does not match the target device.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 to ec5a552f4b2d841c6c021752450716e1a9676661 (excl.)
  • affected from 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 to daf546ab5763ce6a18280cb4db060e836c515301 (excl.)
  • affected from 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 to adb3e7c26a51a10d94a241c6de7a81a2863dcacf (excl.)
  • affected from 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 to 5685bbbd3cbfbeb0de96a1d275a5ca073dfebb5e (excl.)
  • affected from 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 to 120977e2c096deea4e866e4273be9220b957c29e (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.153 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.105 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.46 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.10 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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