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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-90269" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:08:03.996Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:00:46.990Z" 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-2026-90269" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90269.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90269" title: "bpf: Reject load-acquire from pointers requiring fault protection" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Reject load-acquire from pointers requiring fault protection\n\nA BPF_LOAD_ACQ is not rewritten to a BPF_PROBE_MEM load by the verifier,\nunlike a regular BPF_LDX, so the JIT emits a plain load with no exception\ntable entry and a fault panics the kernel instead of being handled.\n\nReject the source pointer types that a BPF_LDX would have had that fault\nprotection applied to, i.e. the ones bpf_convert_ctx_accesses() turns\ninto BPF_PROBE_MEM: a bare PTR_TO_BTF_ID, PTR_TO_BTF_ID | PTR_UNTRUSTED,\nPTR_TO_BTF_ID | MEM_ALLOC | PTR_UNTRUSTED and PTR_TO_MEM | MEM_RDONLY |\nPTR_UNTRUSTED.\n\nThis is reachable e.g. by loading -\u003emm out of a trusted task_struct\nyields an untrusted pointer to mm_struct, and it is NULL for a kernel\nthread:\n\n [...]\n SEC(\"tp_btf/sched_switch\")\n int BPF_PROG(demo, bool preempt, struct task_struct *prev,\n struct task_struct *next)\n {\n struct mm_struct *mm = next-\u003emm; /* untrusted */\n\n out_ldx = (__u64)mm-\u003epgd; /* BPF_LDX */\n out_acq = load_acquire(&mm-\u003epgd); /* BPF_LOAD_ACQ */\n return 0;\n }\n [...]\n\nBoth dereference the same pointer, but only the BPF_LDX is protected\n(x86-64 JIT, jump targets shown prog-relative):\n\n [...]\n ; out_ldx = (__u64)mm-\u003epgd;\n 17: movq $-10485760, %r10\n 1e: movq %rsi, %r11\n 21: addq $184, %r11\n 28: subq %r10, %r11\n 2b: movabsq $140737498841088, %r10\n 35: cmpq %r10, %r11\n 38: ja 0x3e \u003c-- kernel addr?\n 3a: xorl %edi, %edi \u003c-- no: dst = 0, skip the load\n 3c: jmp 0x45\n 3e: movq 184(%rsi), %rdi \u003c-- yes: load + extable entry\n [...]\n ; load_acquire(&mm-\u003epgd)\n 53:\tmovq %rsi, %rdi\n 56:\tmovq 184(%rdi), %rax \u003c-- no check, no extable entry\n [...]\n\nNote that BPF_PROBE_MEM is not visible in a bpftool xlated dump, as\nbpf_insn_prepare_dump() rewrites it back to BPF_MEM.\n\nA PTR_TRUSTED pointer is deliberately not on the list. Such a load is\nnot converted either, but it does not need to be, since the pointer is\nguaranteed live, so load-acquire from it stays allowed.\n\nThe check is gated on BPF_LOAD_ACQ so that atomic RMW and store-release\nerror messages are unchanged; writes (RMW / store-release) to such\npointers are already rejected elsewhere, so only load-acquire needs this." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"880442305a3908589bf4d6fc1d79edb577ee497c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4c8de3bf48d3756ab0f910fe5cc4937d70efdcd"},{"version":"880442305a3908589bf4d6fc1d79edb577ee497c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f8ade6e9b7931fc9697394f1b2c4ae833f5ac18"},{"version":"880442305a3908589bf4d6fc1d79edb577ee497c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7db0a00445f1a40bacfe9b747405c11cb5f10fc9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.18.52","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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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