CVE-2026-98643 PUBLISHED

bpf: Fix out-of-bounds read of rtt_min in sock_ops

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: Fix out-of-bounds read of rtt_min in sock_ops

A sockops prog reading skops->rtt_min never checks the sk type: on the tcp_conn_request() path sock_ops->sk is a request_sock (non-full), and the ctx rewrite casts it to a tcp_sock (full) and reads rtt_min past the end of the request_sock, returning dirty adjacent memory.

<pre>SEC("sockops") int prog(struct bpf_sock_ops *skops) { switch (skops->op) { case BPF_SOCK_OPS_RWND_INIT: leak = skops->rtt_min; /* reads the request_sock OOB */ ... } } </pre>

For instance one such read returned rtt_min=0xffff8881, the high half of a leaked kernel pointer.

Guarding that cast is exactly what SOCK_OPS_GET_FIELD() does -- it checks is_locked_tcp_sock and returns 0 when sock_ops->sk is not a locked full socket. Every other tcp_sock field in sock_ops goes through it; rtt_min is the only one open-coded, so it skips the check.

Read rtt_min through SOCK_OPS_GET_FIELD() too. rtt_min is a bit special: it is a struct minmax and we only want the current min, so pass rtt_min.s[0].v. That is equivalent to the old hand-computed offset

<pre>offsetof(struct tcp_sock, rtt_min) + sizeof_field(struct minmax_sample, t) </pre>

(s[0] sits at rtt_min + 0 and .v at + sizeof(.t), i.e. what minmax_get() returns), so the loaded field is unchanged and only the full-sock guard is added. The two BUILD_BUG_ON()s that protected the hand-computed offset are no longer needed.

Before patch:

<pre>0: r1 = *(u64 *)(r1 +0) ; r1 = skops->sk 1: r1 = *(u32 *)(r1 +2324) ; ((tcp_sock *)sk)->rtt_min.s[0].v </pre>

After patch:

<pre>0: *(u64 *)(r1 +56) = r9 1: r9 = *(u8 *)(r1 +50) ; is_locked_tcp_sock 2: if r9 == 0 goto pc+4 ; not a locked full sock -> 0 3: r9 = *(u64 *)(r1 +56) 4: r1 = *(u64 *)(r1 +0) ; r1 = skops->sk 5: r1 = *(u32 *)(r1 +2324) ; rtt_min.s[0].v 6: goto pc+2 7: r9 = *(u64 *)(r1 +56) 8: r1 = 0 </pre>

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6 to 0c796efa919f52f788c22c79d1f1b70321696b3d (excl.)
  • affected from 44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6 to fc9d0e6e9d86fbefe7b8fe6ee49f4cf102add79d (excl.)
  • affected from 44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6 to fd6bf2721933d8c90bc4ce57f3e204c9295e7e3f (excl.)
  • affected from 44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6 to a8a9becbac93a9f54f4d565f1f3005eb08a7912f (excl.)
  • affected from 44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6 to 3a46f14e6cf375f3ca38f8f6e6524749e24ea0a8 (excl.)
  • affected from 44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6 to 6785313d4fac96afb21ef193610c1fa88b1a9e64 (excl.)
  • affected from 44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6 to cba54d142c43ec96d8c4d566f66439e8c0afded7 (excl.)
  • affected from 44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6 to 75f8cf22463d82bb1fb0239a3d485fc8f4c8ef03 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.16 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.16 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • 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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