Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2026
CVE-2026-98611
CVE-2026-98611
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Check params size before reading reserved fields
bpf_crypto_ctx_create() is a kfunc whose second argument is declared with the __sz annotation, so the verifier only guarantees that params__sz bytes of params are valid. The function nevertheless reads params->reserved[0] and params->reserved[1] (offsets 14 and 15) before comparing params__sz against the size of struct bpf_crypto_params, so a BPF program can pass a shorter buffer and have the kernel read past the region that was validated for it.
Move the size check in front of the reserved field reads.
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