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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93138"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:11:38.795Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:06:11.046Z"
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-2026-93138"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93138.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93138"
title: "bpf: Fix vmlinux BTF prep race in bpf_get_btf_vmlinux"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix vmlinux BTF prep race in bpf_get_btf_vmlinux\n\nbpf_get_btf_vmlinux() lazily parses the vmlinux BTF under the\nbpf_verifier_lock, but publishes the result through a plain store\nand re-checks it through a plain lockless load. Nothing orders\nthe stores initializing the struct btf inside btf_parse_vmlinux()\nagainst the store publishing the pointer: On a weakly ordered\narch, a concurrent first-time caller taking the lockless fast\npath could in principle observe the pointer before the parsed\ncontents are visible. The mutex_unlock() does not help such a\nreader given it only synchronizes with a later acquisition of the\nsame lock. Thus, publish the pointer with smp_store_release()\nand read it on the fast path with smp_load_acquire().\n\nAcquire semantics are needed rather than a dependency-ordered\nREAD_ONCE(): btf_parse_vmlinux() also populates globals outside\nthe returned object (e.g. bpf_ctx_convert.t). An address\ndependency would only order accesses performed through the\npointer and not cover other globals."
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