# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-45837"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T09:24:32.833Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-14T17:46:01.781Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-45837"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45837.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45837"
title: "bpf: Fix use-after-free in arena_vm_close on fork"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix use-after-free in arena_vm_close on fork\n\narena_vm_open() only bumps vml-\u003emmap_count but never registers the\nchild VMA in arena-\u003evma_list. The vml-\u003evma always points at the\nparent VMA, so after parent munmap the pointer dangles. If the child\nthen calls bpf_arena_free_pages(), zap_pages() reads the stale\nvml-\u003evma triggering use-after-free.\n\nFix this by preventing the arena VMA from being inherited across\nfork with VM_DONTCOPY, and preventing VMA splits via the may_split\ncallback.\n\nAlso reject mremap with a .mremap callback returning -EINVAL. A\nsame-size mremap(MREMAP_FIXED) on the full arena VMA reaches\ncopy_vma() through the following path:\n\n  check_prep_vma()       - returns 0 early: new_len == old_len\n                           skips VM_DONTEXPAND check\n  prep_move_vma()        - vm_start == old_addr and\n                           vm_end == old_addr + old_len\n                           so may_split is never called\n  move_vma()\n    copy_vma_and_data()\n      copy_vma()\n        vm_area_dup()    - copies vm_private_data (vml pointer)\n        vm_ops-\u003eopen()   - bumps vml-\u003emmap_count\n      vm_ops-\u003emremap()   - returns -EINVAL, rollback unmaps new VMA\n\nThe refcount ensures the rollback's arena_vm_close does not free\nthe vml shared with the original VMA."
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