# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72111"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:52.538Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:44:56.296Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72111"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72111.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72111"
title: "bpf: Reset register bounds before narrowing retval range in check_mem_access()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Reset register bounds before narrowing retval range in check_mem_access()\n\nWhen the BPF verifier processes a context load of an LSM hook return\nvalue, it calls __mark_reg_s32_range() to narrow the register to the\nhook's valid range. However, __mark_reg_s32_range() intersects the new\nrange with the register's existing bounds using max_t()/min_t() rather\nthan replacing them.\n\nIf the destination register carries stale bounds from a prior instruction\n(e.g. BPF_MOV64_IMM), the intersection can produce a range narrower than\nreality. The verifier then believes it knows the register's exact value,\nwhile at runtime the actual hook return value is loaded, creating a\nverifier/runtime mismatch that can be used to bypass BPF memory safety\nchecks.\n\nThe else branch already calls mark_reg_unknown() to reset register state\nbefore any narrowing. Apply the same reset in the is_retval path so\nstale bounds are cleared before __mark_reg_s32_range() intersects."
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