CVE-2026-90157 PUBLISHED

bpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

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

bpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook

A cgroup getsockopt BPF program can shrink ctx->optlen after the kernel getsockopt handler has run. The kernel-buffer variant, used by TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE, only rejects values larger than the original length.

If BPF writes a negative optlen, that value is accepted and propagated back to the TCP getsockopt code. It can then be passed to copy_to_sockptr() as a size_t and trigger the hardened usercopy bytes > INT_MAX warning.

Reject negative ctx.optlen in __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_getsockopt_kern(), matching the lower-bound validation already present in the sockptr-based getsockopt hook.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 08f61a34913558e06576e7b6318bf583f273c1be to 5b09d984b38b018b123c3a9e02a96bbc6468dbe5 (excl.)
  • affected from 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to 554ba7195c4108726450e24480c8449990c2268c (excl.)
  • affected from 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to d02a12b4085ffe41ea750b1007f7a9c7aee2875a (excl.)
  • affected from 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to e6fbf0eba87f50084d67508898f6ad6fc7ff1ba2 (excl.)
  • affected from 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to f68671b1a98d426c57864bd457c125fee14ac1a5 (excl.)
  • affected from 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to 2bdbe00454200fcb0110f31eeca8d906a3515e74 (excl.)
  • affected from 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to 31a89af4f513d750fec196e2bb6195a7d4473e9f (excl.)
  • affected from 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to 1b5aacd5b2419b0790e955e466d389a61c79b4b1 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.10.188 to 5.10.270 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.270 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.221 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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