PT-2026-90295 · Linux · Linux
CVE-2026-89579
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Published
2026-09-11
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Updated
2026-09-11
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Harden bloom filter sizing and indexing on 32-bit kernels
bloom map alloc() has two 32-bit-specific problems when the computed
bitmap reaches the U32 MAX fallback case.
First, BITS TO BYTES(U32 MAX) is evaluated with 32-bit arithmetic. The
addition performed by DIV ROUND UP wraps, so the map allocates only the
fixed-size bloom filter object while keeping bitset mask == U32 MAX.
Subsequent updates can then write past the allocated object.
Second, fixing only the allocation size is not sufficient. The bloom hash
is a u32, but set bit() takes a signed long bit number and x86 test bit()
eventually feeds the index to variable test bit(long, ...). On 32-bit
kernels, hashes in [0x80000000, U32 MAX] therefore become negative bit
offsets. x86 bt/bts with a memory operand interpret those offsets relative
to the supplied base, so a map with bitset mask == U32 MAX can read or
write before bloom->bitset even after allocating the full 512 MiB bitmap.
Keep the U32 MAX fallback, but split each hash into a word pointer and an
in-word bit number before calling test bit() or set bit(). The bitops
argument is then always in [0, BITS PER LONG - 1], while BIT WORD(h) still
selects the intended word in the full bitmap.
Compute the bitset size from (u64)bitset mask + 1 before passing the final
size to bpf map area alloc(). This fixes the original under-allocation and
keeps the allocated storage consistent with the addressable bitset.
Exploitation note: local privilege escalation is possible on a 32-bit x86
kernel using the under-allocation bug from a binary with CAP BPF.
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