CVE-2026-92515

bpf: Preserve unique-field state across nested structs

N/A
Published: September 17, 2026 at 04:10 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 10:16 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Preserve unique-field state across nested structs btf_find_struct_field() initializes a fresh seen mask for every recursive descent. Unique special fields in different levels of the same aggregate therefore do not see one another. The duplicate fields can reach btf_parse_fields(), where they trigger an invariant WARN_ON_ONCE(). A crafted user BTF can consequently trigger the warning before map creation checks capabilities. Initialize the seen mask once in btf_find_field() and pass the same pointer through struct, datasec, and nested-struct walks. This gives the entire field traversal one shared uniqueness state.

Affected

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

6.1164e8ee814819f21beeeda00d4119221443d77992
Vendor states this is fixed in 28d5f20ed022ade0fb0bfbf50b78fec782083175 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 373a1e9366e711b89bc5e45bd6edf33ef62402cd (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in cec97102d4147e18568c93946014c4c8ebf86fcf (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f08619f060468076e4acbdc10e0713af20d60e65 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.11 (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 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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