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CVE-2026-90157

bpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook

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 products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 08f61a34913558e06576e7b6318bf583f273c1be to < 5b09d984b38b018b123c3a9e02a96bbc6468dbe5affected
  • 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to < 554ba7195c4108726450e24480c8449990c2268caffected
  • 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to < d02a12b4085ffe41ea750b1007f7a9c7aee2875aaffected
  • 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to < e6fbf0eba87f50084d67508898f6ad6fc7ff1ba2affected
  • 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to < f68671b1a98d426c57864bd457c125fee14ac1a5affected
  • 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to < 2bdbe00454200fcb0110f31eeca8d906a3515e74affected
  • 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to < 31a89af4f513d750fec196e2bb6195a7d4473e9faffected
  • 9cacf81f8161111db25f98e78a7a0e32ae142b3f to < 1b5aacd5b2419b0790e955e466d389a61c79b4b1affected
  • 5.10.188 to < 5.10.270affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.12affected
  • 0 to < 5.12unaffected
  • 5.10.270 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.221 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.188 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.157 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.110 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.52 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.6 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

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