# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90177"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:03.097Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:50:19.113Z"
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-2026-90177"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90177.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90177"
title: "bpf: Check pointer type for all atomic RMW paths"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Check pointer type for all atomic RMW paths\n\nAtomic RMW verification records an instruction pointer type only when the\ncurrent destination is PTR_TO_ARENA. A second path can therefore reach the\nsame instruction with an ordinary pointer without comparing it against the\nsaved arena type.\n\nThe post-verification fixup uses the saved type to rewrite the instruction\nto BPF_PROBE_ATOMIC for every path. Record the actual destination type for\nall atomic RMW paths so the existing mismatch check rejects incompatible\nuses of one instruction."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d503a04f8bc0c75dc9db9452d8cc79d748afb752","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b14dabe9656c1029abf3aa01e69c0d62f37f2f88"},{"version":"d503a04f8bc0c75dc9db9452d8cc79d748afb752","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d4ba9d888ac0a8f12c78071fff73e1205a0b9293"},{"version":"d503a04f8bc0c75dc9db9452d8cc79d748afb752","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eb287c6e81dedef92da01eb947f380d0aae513c3"},{"version":"d503a04f8bc0c75dc9db9452d8cc79d748afb752","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4bc49ae344d65cfcef738f281ac575cf73ca2fc5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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