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
Related
Published
2026-09-17T16:09:04Z
Modified
2026-10-28T02:30:43Z
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
de54ba33690d2dd3c4aa686c9693505644285b0b
Fixed
9a9e902bd0556052534641f7d5f868c6dc4b84ae
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
6.12.114
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.57
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.6

Database specific

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