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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26589" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-02-22T16:13:33.713Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:26:06.494Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26589" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26589.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26589" title: "bpf: Reject variable offset alu on PTR_TO_FLOW_KEYS" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Reject variable offset alu on PTR_TO_FLOW_KEYS\n\nFor PTR_TO_FLOW_KEYS, check_flow_keys_access() only uses fixed off\nfor validation. However, variable offset ptr alu is not prohibited\nfor this ptr kind. So the variable offset is not checked.\n\nThe following prog is accepted:\n\n func#0 @0\n 0: R1=ctx() R10=fp0\n 0: (bf) r6 = r1 ; R1=ctx() R6_w=ctx()\n 1: (79) r7 = *(u64 *)(r6 +144) ; R6_w=ctx() R7_w=flow_keys()\n 2: (b7) r8 = 1024 ; R8_w=1024\n 3: (37) r8 /= 1 ; R8_w=scalar()\n 4: (57) r8 &= 1024 ; R8_w=scalar(smin=smin32=0,\n smax=umax=smax32=umax32=1024,var_off=(0x0; 0x400))\n 5: (0f) r7 += r8\n mark_precise: frame0: last_idx 5 first_idx 0 subseq_idx -1\n mark_precise: frame0: regs=r8 stack= before 4: (57) r8 &= 1024\n mark_precise: frame0: regs=r8 stack= before 3: (37) r8 /= 1\n mark_precise: frame0: regs=r8 stack= before 2: (b7) r8 = 1024\n 6: R7_w=flow_keys(smin=smin32=0,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=1024,var_off\n =(0x0; 0x400)) R8_w=scalar(smin=smin32=0,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=1024,\n var_off=(0x0; 0x400))\n 6: (79) r0 = *(u64 *)(r7 +0) ; R0_w=scalar()\n 7: (95) exit\n\nThis prog loads flow_keys to r7, and adds the variable offset r8\nto r7, and finally causes out-of-bounds access:\n\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90014c80038\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1231 [inline]\n __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:651 [inline]\n bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:658 [inline]\n bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu include/linux/filter.h:675 [inline]\n bpf_flow_dissect+0x15f/0x350 net/core/flow_dissector.c:991\n bpf_prog_test_run_flow_dissector+0x39d/0x620 net/bpf/test_run.c:1359\n bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4107 [inline]\n __sys_bpf+0xf8f/0x4560 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5475\n __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5561 [inline]\n __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5559 [inline]\n __x64_sys_bpf+0x73/0xb0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:5559\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b\n\nFix this by rejecting ptr alu with variable offset on flow_keys.\nApplying the patch rejects the program with \"R7 pointer arithmetic\non flow_keys prohibited\"." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d58e468b1112dcd1d5193c0a89ff9f98b5a3e8b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"29ffa63f21bcdcef3e36b03cccf9d0cd031f6ab0"},{"version":"d58e468b1112dcd1d5193c0a89ff9f98b5a3e8b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4108b86e324da42f7ed425bd71632fd844300dc8"},{"version":"d58e468b1112dcd1d5193c0a89ff9f98b5a3e8b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e8d3872b617c21100c5ee4f64e513997a68c2e3d"},{"version":"d58e468b1112dcd1d5193c0a89ff9f98b5a3e8b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1b500d5d6cecf98dd6ca88bc9e7ae1783c83e6d3"},{"version":"d58e468b1112dcd1d5193c0a89ff9f98b5a3e8b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22c7fa171a02d310e3a3f6ed46a698ca8a0060ed"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.20","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.15.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.75","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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