UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72426

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Preserve pointer spill metadata during half-slot cleanup cleanfuncstate cleans dead stack slots in 4-byte halves. When the high half of a STACKSPILL slot is dead and the low half remains live, cleanup converts the live low...

CVE-2026-72426

The CVE-2026-72426 entry describes a Linux kernel vulnerability affecting BPF stack slot cleanup. When cleaning dead stack slots in 4-byte halves, if the high half of a STACK_SPILL is dead and the low half remains live, the low half could be converted to STACK_MISC/STACK_ZERO and its spilled_ptr ...