CVE-2026-90250
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, cgroup: Fix storage null-ptr-deref after replacing prog
Syzkaller reported a storage null-ptr-deref issue after replacing prog. This occurs in the following scenario: 1. prog A, an empty prog, is attached to a cgrp. 2. prog B uses BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_CGROUP_STORAGE and calls the bpf_get_local_storage helper. 3. link_update is called to replace prog A with prog B.
The reason is that __cgroup_bpf_replace fails to alloc and assign the required cgrp storage for the incoming replacement prog. Consequently, the new prog inherits an uninit storage, leading to null-ptr-deref panic when kick the new prog.
Fix this by rejecting a link update if new_prog's cgroup storage is incompatible with link->prog.
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Affected products
3- osv-coords2 versions
>= 5.7.0, < 6.1.191+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 5.7.0, < 6.1.191
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.7-1.1
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References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/12feca126831556dc7fabe5a3ba28fbd328768b6nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/16c8321ee40c420f8e02e09515a5126682ddf4eanvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ab3da12061d7ccb099f7e925fa2d865967a316anvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f562c537e9ecf4bc5e206cfffc2cc047f1b7e94nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/85785e7e2ebddcaa5c3b31bd3bcd83ae648985d4nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a033c950f6731be88a7da98604ed78f302f15b80nvd
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