CVE-2026-98627 PUBLISHED

bpf: Preserve packet pointer class displacement in regsafe()

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

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

bpf: Preserve packet pointer class displacement in regsafe()

regsafe() maps packet pointer IDs between states and checks that each current register range is a subset of the corresponding explored register range. It does not, however, preserve the displacement between registers that share a packet pointer ID.

This is unsound because packet range is shared by ID. A bounds check on one class member updates every member, and a later access can consume the range through another member. Commit 022ac0750883 ("bpf: use reg->var_off instead of reg->off for pointers") folded the fixed pointer offset into r64 and removed the old off equality check, so two individually narrower registers can prune even when their displacement has changed. The explored path can then license an out-of-bounds packet access on the pruned path.

Require matching range bases for packet pointers with an ID. Together with the existing ID mapping, this preserves the displacement between members of each packet-pointer class without adding per-ID state. Packet pointers without an ID remain unaffected.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 022ac075088366b62e130da5e1b200bc93a47191 to 091b40845bd3cf96791171ca95113e9184ccb596 (excl.)
  • affected from 022ac075088366b62e130da5e1b200bc93a47191 to fd16449a9b3b31a8f18944c2f0e29e4e218ca2cf (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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