CVE-2026-90157

bpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook

N/A
Published: September 17, 2026 at 04:06 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:19 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook A cgroup getsockopt BPF program can shrink ctx->optlen after the kernel getsockopt handler has run. The kernel-buffer variant, used by TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE, only rejects values larger than the original length. If BPF writes a negative optlen, that value is accepted and propagated back to the TCP getsockopt code. It can then be passed to copy_to_sockptr() as a size_t and trigger the hardened usercopy bytes > INT_MAX warning. Reject negative ctx.optlen in __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_getsockopt_kern(), matching the lower-bound validation already present in the sockptr-based getsockopt hook.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

08f61a34913558e06576e7b6318bf583f273c1be5.10.1885.128f61a34913558e6576e7b6318bf583f273c1be9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f
Vendor states this is fixed in 1b5aacd5b2419b0790e955e466d389a61c79b4b1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2bdbe00454200fcb0110f31eeca8d906a3515e74 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 31a89af4f513d750fec196e2bb6195a7d4473e9f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 554ba7195c4108726450e24480c8449990c2268c (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5b09d984b38b018b123c3a9e02a96bbc6468dbe5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d02a12b4085ffe41ea750b1007f7a9c7aee2875a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e6fbf0eba87f50084d67508898f6ad6fc7ff1ba2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f68671b1a98d426c57864bd457c125fee14ac1a5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.270 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.221 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.188 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.110 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.52 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.157 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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