CVE-2026-93045 PUBLISHED

bpf: Reject arena frees below the arena base

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

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

bpf: Reject arena frees below the arena base

bpf_arena_free_pages() accepts scalar arena addresses. The runtime masks the address to the low 32 bits and reconstructs a full user address from the arena base before returning the range to the arena free tree.

When the scalar value is below the low 32 bits of the arena base, full_uaddr falls below user_vm_start. The existing upper-end clipping then turns this into an out-of-range free-tree offset. A later allocation can reuse that offset and return an address below the arena mapping.

Reject such frees before computing the clipped range.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163 to 90453eaf8f14e7be0ab03983f2a93aeb6b990a58 (excl.)
  • affected from 317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163 to a968dffa5ab3c74d2ebb3a6233bf8b843f0bfc20 (excl.)
  • affected from 317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163 to 8a08635656037aee9c12231ed384449c4ffb1a93 (excl.)
  • affected from 317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163 to b5a71cb2db6d84ac0042549dcec266b18429d41e (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.9 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.9 (excl.)
  • 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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