# 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-2026-90146"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:41.695Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:50:04.647Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90146"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90146.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90146"
title: "bpf, xdp: move offload check into dev_xdp_install()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, xdp: move offload check into dev_xdp_install()\n\nbpf_xdp_link_update() calls dev_xdp_install() directly and skips\ndev_xdp_attach(), so the checks in dev_xdp_attach() do not run. A user can\nmake an XDP link with a normal program and then swap in an offloaded or\ndevice-bound program with BPF_LINK_UPDATE, which puts it on the software\npath.\n\ndev_xdp_install() is the one place all three paths go through:\n\"ip link set xdp\" and BPF_LINK_CREATE reach it via dev_xdp_attach(), and\nBPF_LINK_UPDATE calls it directly. So move the program checks (offloaded,\nbound to another device, device-bound in generic mode, native vs generic,\nDEVMAP and CPUMAP) there, and keep only the netlink-flag check\n(XDP_FLAGS_UPDATE_IF_NOEXIST) in dev_xdp_attach()."
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