CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72110
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-16
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf,fork: wipe ->bpf_storage before bailouts that access it
Currently, copy_process() can bail out to free_task() before p->bpf_storage
has been initialized, with this call graph (shown here for the
!CONFIG_MEMCG case):
copy_process
dup_task_struct
arch_dup_task_struct
[copies the entire task_struct, including ->bpf_storage member]
[RLIMIT_NPROC check fails]
delayed_free_task
free_task
bpf_task_storage_free
rcu_dereference(task->bpf_storage)
bpf_local_storage_destroy
In this case, the nascent task's ->bpf_storage member that
bpf_local_storage_destroy() operates on is a plain copy of the parent's
->bpf_storage pointer, not a real initialized pointer.
This leads to badness (kernel hangs, UAF).
This is reachable as long as the process calling fork() has been inserted
into a task storage map.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43f0005f81b8ce3be962d653cde8db9022f1e9b0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7df67a4799067a59e6a2d53f8059a6be6e73e678 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b51a6155d14389876916726430da30eabb1d4ed git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cff220ddb65b022cc668bb652200742476e744c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aff686efd38728e06daf12417a0d7ed454ce4cff git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3fd6f28c7ce1142a3b23dbb840eaa4777de1d74 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4f626ddf2350652ad2f79daf1f10847f3f6eabd git.kernel.org