CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-53078
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-06-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix same-register dst/src OOB read and pointer leak in sock_ops
When a BPF sock_ops program accesses ctx fields with dst_reg == src_reg,
the SOCK_OPS_GET_SK() and SOCK_OPS_GET_FIELD() macros fail to zero the
destination register in the !fullsock / !locked_tcp_sock path.
Both macros borrow a temporary register to check is_fullsock /
is_locked_tcp_sock when dst_reg == src_reg, because dst_reg holds the
ctx pointer. When the check is false (e.g., TCP_NEW_SYN_RECV state with
a request_sock), dst_reg should be zeroed but is not, leaving the stale
ctx pointer:
- SOCK_OPS_GET_SK: dst_reg retains the ctx pointer, passes NULL checks
as PTR_TO_SOCKET_OR_NULL, and can be used as a bogus socket pointer,
leading to stack-out-of-bounds access in helpers like
bpf_skc_to_tcp6_sock().
- SOCK_OPS_GET_FIELD: dst_reg retains the ctx pointer which the
verifier believes is a SCALAR_VALUE, leaking a kernel pointer.
Fix both macros by:
- Changing JMP_A(1) to JMP_A(2) in the fullsock path to skip the
added instruction.
- Adding BPF_MOV64_IMM(si->dst_reg, 0) after the temp register
restore in the !fullsock path, placed after the restore because
dst_reg == src_reg means we need src_reg intact to read ctx->temp.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4.61 < 5.5)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.7.18 < 5.8)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.8.4 < 5.9)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.9.1 < 7.0.10)
• linux linux kernel 5.9
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e6b30657bbc771f38025c828d722b6162428508 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10f86a2a5c91fc4c4d001960f1c21abe52545ef6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18e3ffde1822f0b48b1753bf34aa97ce839df1d8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22400725de070b787cd6d806c5795370ab46d269 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a2c98141e0a75f2d4a7d78b0316c88b3da784ac git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c1c5efd9d1d74743d41ce4e1600501b4feb6827 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64eaf4ecda007140ddcdb28e00c48c9c69aaba39 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db1200ec2c3ddf119d4d9ba67982063df06bbacb git.kernel.org