# 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-2026-90157"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:06:49.081Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:58:55.961Z"
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-2026-90157"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90157.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90157"
title: "bpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook\n\nA cgroup getsockopt BPF program can shrink ctx-\u003eoptlen after the\nkernel getsockopt handler has run. The kernel-buffer variant, used by\nTCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE, only rejects values larger than the original\nlength.\n\nIf BPF writes a negative optlen, that value is accepted and propagated\nback to the TCP getsockopt code. It can then be passed to\ncopy_to_sockptr() as a size_t and trigger the hardened usercopy\nbytes \u003e INT_MAX warning.\n\nReject negative ctx.optlen in __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_getsockopt_kern(),\nmatching the lower-bound validation already present in the sockptr-based\ngetsockopt hook."
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