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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98019"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:40.303Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:54:04.100Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98019"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98019.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98019"
title: "bpf: mark a NULL call argument precise"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: mark a NULL call argument precise\n\ncheck_func_arg() allows bpf_register_is_null() for nullable arguments\nw/o marking the underlying scalar register precise. Hence a checkpoint\ncreated on such a path would prune against arbitrary scalar value.\n\ncheck_helper_call() enforces second parameter of the\nbpf_get_local_storage() to be zero, w/o marking the underlying scalar\nregister precise. Hence a checkpoint created on such a path would\nprune against arbitrary scalar value.\n\nGrouping these two into one patch, as they share the same fixes tag."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b5dc0163d8fd78e64a7e21f309cf932fda34353e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"febbb66e682d8328f7c5bcbdd5e4291abab2e858"},{"version":"b5dc0163d8fd78e64a7e21f309cf932fda34353e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"627089c278df58749f25686c6a3caf7e181b5951"},{"version":"b5dc0163d8fd78e64a7e21f309cf932fda34353e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1fe6379e401b8ce0f561cb4d84af2b70b4343c3"},{"version":"b5dc0163d8fd78e64a7e21f309cf932fda34353e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69a9ad004ccf5d45e534c7d503f47f643abe64b7"},{"version":"b5dc0163d8fd78e64a7e21f309cf932fda34353e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a3a10b030c96ea88868ccc060a16827c01eaa5a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","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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