CVE-2026-89579

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89579
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89579.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-89579
Downstream
Published
2026-09-11T19:44:46Z
Modified
2026-09-16T03:30:13Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
bpf: Harden bloom filter sizing and indexing on 32-bit kernels
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Harden bloom filter sizing and indexing on 32-bit kernels

bloom_map_alloc() has two 32-bit-specific problems when the computed bitmap reaches the U32_MAX fallback case.

First, BITS_TO_BYTES(U32_MAX) is evaluated with 32-bit arithmetic. The addition performed by DIV_ROUND_UP wraps, so the map allocates only the fixed-size bloom filter object while keeping bitset_mask == U32_MAX. Subsequent updates can then write past the allocated object.

Second, fixing only the allocation size is not sufficient. The bloom hash is a u32, but set_bit() takes a signed long bit number and x86 test_bit() eventually feeds the index to variable_test_bit(long, ...). On 32-bit kernels, hashes in [0x80000000, U32_MAX] therefore become negative bit offsets. x86 bt/bts with a memory operand interpret those offsets relative to the supplied base, so a map with bitset_mask == U32_MAX can read or write before bloom->bitset even after allocating the full 512 MiB bitmap.

Keep the U32_MAX fallback, but split each hash into a word pointer and an in-word bit number before calling test_bit() or set_bit(). The bitops argument is then always in [0, BITS_PER_LONG - 1], while BIT_WORD(h) still selects the intended word in the full bitmap.

Compute the bitset size from (u64)bitset_mask + 1 before passing the final size to bpf_map_area_alloc(). This fixes the original under-allocation and keeps the allocated storage consistent with the addressable bitset.

Exploitation note: local privilege escalation is possible on a 32-bit x86 kernel using the under-allocation bug from a binary with CAP_BPF.

Database specific
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}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
9330986c03006ab1d33d243b7cfe598a7a3c1baa
Fixed
a6183bc683f97f4317f7e84939ca7fff37c5688b
Fixed
80551bf8912c42d1e3d55eec6fa3c40f306c3de8
Fixed
3b7a13eccfcf97714ffc1ca6aa663d66d4a30e29
Fixed
272fcb4ba6fab678db0eb966dc81c4c804bef64a
Fixed
dff481e12b3f127739f6a4ea7cef2c25dc12e056
Fixed
11c1e836710dcba03e50454a4eedfdbaf8d3050e

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89579.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.188
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.157
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.109
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.50
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89579.json"