CVE-2026-98037

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Berkeley Packet Filter BPF verifier. An improper validation check fails to reject untrusted allocated-object pointers after their protection scope expires, incorrectly recognizing them as valid live objects. A local user with permissions to load BPF programs...

CVE-2026-98037

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject untrusted allocated-object pointers When the final RCU read-side critical section ends, a local kptr is demoted to PTRUNTRUSTED but retains MEMALLOC. The pointer may be NULL or may refer to an object whose lifetime is...