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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38502"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-08-16T09:34:25.135Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:17.683Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-38502"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38502.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38502"
title: "bpf: Fix oob access in cgroup local storage"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix oob access in cgroup local storage\n\nLonial reported that an out-of-bounds access in cgroup local storage\ncan be crafted via tail calls. Given two programs each utilizing a\ncgroup local storage with a different value size, and one program\ndoing a tail call into the other. The verifier will validate each of\nthe indivial programs just fine. However, in the runtime context\nthe bpf_cg_run_ctx holds an bpf_prog_array_item which contains the\nBPF program as well as any cgroup local storage flavor the program\nuses. Helpers such as bpf_get_local_storage() pick this up from the\nruntime context:\n\n  ctx = container_of(current-\u003ebpf_ctx, struct bpf_cg_run_ctx, run_ctx);\n  storage = ctx-\u003eprog_item-\u003ecgroup_storage[stype];\n\n  if (stype == BPF_CGROUP_STORAGE_SHARED)\n    ptr = &READ_ONCE(storage-\u003ebuf)-\u003edata[0];\n  else\n    ptr = this_cpu_ptr(storage-\u003epercpu_buf);\n\nFor the second program which was called from the originally attached\none, this means bpf_get_local_storage() will pick up the former\nprogram's map, not its own. With mismatching sizes, this can result\nin an unintended out-of-bounds access.\n\nTo fix this issue, we need to extend bpf_map_owner with an array of\nstorage_cookie[] to match on i) the exact maps from the original\nprogram if the second program was using bpf_get_local_storage(), or\nii) allow the tail call combination if the second program was not\nusing any of the cgroup local storage maps."
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