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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72112"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:53.275Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:40:26.740Z"
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-2026-72112"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72112.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72112"
title: "io_uring/bpf-ops: reject re-registration of an already-bound ops"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring/bpf-ops: reject re-registration of an already-bound ops\n\nio_install_bpf() only rejects a second registration on the ctx side\n(ctx-\u003ebpf_ops) and sets the per-map back-pointer ops-\u003epriv\nunconditionally. The struct_ops link path never advances a map past\nBPF_STRUCT_OPS_STATE_READY, so the same io_uring_bpf_ops map can be\nregistered more than once, and bpf_io_reg() re-resolves the target ring\nvia fget(ops-\u003ering_fd) on every call. A caller can therefore point the\nsame ring_fd at a different io_ring_ctx between two BPF_LINK_CREATE\ncalls.\n\nThe second registration passes the ctx-\u003ebpf_ops check (the new ctx has\nnone) and overwrites ops-\u003epriv, orphaning the first ctx. Teardown\n(io_eject_bpf()/bpf_io_unreg()) only reaches a ctx through ops-\u003epriv, so\nthe orphaned ctx is never torn down: its ctx-\u003eloop_step keeps pointing\ninto the struct_ops trampoline, which is freed once the map is gone. A\nlater io_uring_enter() on the orphaned ring then calls the dangling\nctx-\u003eloop_step from io_run_loop() -- a use-after-free of freed\nexecutable memory, reachable by a task with CAP_BPF + CAP_PERFMON.\n\nReject registration when ops-\u003epriv is already set, as hid_bpf_reg()\ndoes for its struct_ops."
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