CVE-2026-98382 PUBLISHED

bpf: Reject dev-bound-only programs on other devices

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 09.10.2026 Updated: 09.10.2026

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

bpf: Reject dev-bound-only programs on other devices

__bpf_offload_dev_match() falls back to comparing offdev pointers after an exact netdev mismatch. Bound-only programs normally have NULL offdevs, so unrelated netdevs compare equal. A bound-only program on an offload-registered netdev can instead inherit a real offdev and match a sibling port. With CAP_BPF and CAP_NET_ADMIN, a caller can use bpf(BPF_LINK_CREATE) with a different target ifindex to run metadata kfuncs specialized for the bound driver on the target driver's xdp_buff. Running a veth-bound program on tun reads beyond tun's bare stack xdp_buff as a veth_xdp_buff.

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017] RIP: 0010:veth_xdp_rx_timestamp (drivers/net/veth.c:1673) Call Trace: ... tun_build_skb (drivers/net/tun.c:1739) tun_get_user (drivers/net/tun.c:1856) tun_chr_write_iter (drivers/net/tun.c:2091) vfs_write (fs/read_write.c:595 fs/read_write.c:687) ksys_write (fs/read_write.c:739) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121) Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Restrict non-offloaded programs to exact netdev matches and retain the shared-offdev fallback only for genuinely offloaded multi-port programs.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 to e57f04194361574493e3e6cf0b9e9c69e4ae9791 (excl.)
  • affected from 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 to 0dceda331180617aeeb22381e8480b37f18ba08b (excl.)
  • affected from 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 to 940b626854de200e6187777d42114727daca617c (excl.)
  • affected from 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 to bb375f3c5990e29851894f20ebc4b9dbc6676126 (excl.)
  • affected from 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 to 6db1ce73e9853f533eb7f413f14ba00f8ec6f80d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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