CVE-2026-93148 PUBLISHED

bpf: Reject MEM_ALLOC BTF accesses past object bounds

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 MEM_ALLOC BTF accesses past object bounds

BTF struct walks relax the struct-size check for accesses through a trailing flexible array. That is valid for ordinary BTF type walking, but PTR_TO_BTF_ID | MEM_ALLOC values point to objects allocated with the static BTF type size.

When walking a MEM_ALLOC object, reject the access before applying the flexible-array relaxation if the access range extends past the struct size. Apply the same policy to struct ID matching so kfunc and kptr type checks do not walk past the allocated object bounds either.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 958cf2e273f0929c66169e0788031310e8118722 to e626a50d07d43421cbf7bfb5a084b33a5e276b6e (excl.)
  • affected from 958cf2e273f0929c66169e0788031310e8118722 to 9c9ee0324c774490ae953162aaaf4561d222bd93 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.2 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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