CVE-2026-90359

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90359
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90359.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-90359
Downstream
Published
2026-09-17T16:09:04Z
Modified
2026-09-19T03:47:26Z
Summary
bpf: Reject >8 byte return values on return-reading trampoline paths
Details

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

bpf: Reject >8 byte return values on return-reading trampoline paths

btf_distill_func_proto() builds the function model used for the fentry/fexit/fmod_ret/fsession trampolines and struct_ops. It has accepted a 16-byte __int128 return value since the trampoline was introduced: __get_type_size() returns the integer's type size, and the return-type check only rejected ret < 0.

But the BPF trampoline preserves only 8 bytes of the return value (RAX on x86, i.e. R0). For an attach type that reads the target's return value the second half (RDX / R3) is neither saved nor restored, so a program attached to a function returning a 16-byte value corrupts the value seen by the real caller and itself observes only half of it. struct_ops trampolines have the same limitation.

This affects the attach types that read the target's return value: fexit, fmod_ret and fsession (plus the _multi variants of fexit and fsession), and struct_ops. fentry/fentry_multi run before the target returns and are unaffected.

Reject a >8 byte return value for these attach types in bpf_check_attach_target() and bpf_check_attach_btf_id_multi(), and for struct_ops in bpf_struct_ops_desc_init().

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/90xxx/CVE-2026-90359.json"
}
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
fec56f5890d93fc2ed74166c397dc186b1c25951
Fixed
d36ac53fc83baf843c51b7afd6d2471f36b713d8
Fixed
c48796aa6c392cde93946e5d5a9a1f1b1cf72feb

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90359.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
7.2.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-90359.json"