CVE-2026-98540 PUBLISHED

fprobe: Terminate the fgraph_data list when the reservation is not filled

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

fprobe: Terminate the fgraph_data list when the reservation is not filled

fprobe_fgraph_entry() reserves shadow stack space for every fprobe with an exit handler, but only fills it for those whose entry handler returns 0. fgraph_reserve_data() does not clear the area, so fprobe_return() parses the unused tail as headers left over from an earlier call, and an exit handler can run twice or despite its entry handler asking to skip it.

Write a zero word after the last entry to terminate the walk. A zeroed slot does not decode to a NULL fprobe on the arches that encode the header into one unsigned long, since arch_decode_fprobe_header_fp() ORs in FPROBE_HEADER_MSB_PATTERN, so make read_fprobe_header() return NULL for a zeroed slot.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from e0a384434ae1bdfb03954c46c464e3dbd3223ad6 to b7459fddcb27a4b7d01067678172afa362cf660d (excl.)
  • affected from e0a384434ae1bdfb03954c46c464e3dbd3223ad6 to 1d653a183973f5283a3db5a38cd5e195eb152244 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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