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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98033"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:48.761Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:54:07.398Z"
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-2026-98033"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98033.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98033"
title: "bpf: Preserve inner map identity in callback frames"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Preserve inner map identity in callback frames\n\nCallback frame constructors initialize map-typed argument registers with\n__mark_reg_known_zero() and then restore map_ptr. This clears map_uid,\nwhich is the only field distinguishing inner maps that share an\ninner_map_meta template.\n\nWhen a timer callback invokes bpf_for_each_map_elem() on a second inner\nmap, both the saved first map and the second map value can reach the nested\ncallback as the same template with map_uid zero. bpf_timer_init() then\naccepts pairing the timer from the second map with the first map.\n\nThe runtime records the first map in the timer without taking a reference.\nFreeing that map does not find the timer stored in the second map, so a\nlater timer callback dereferences the freed map.\n\nCopy map_uid from the same caller register as map_ptr when constructing\nfor-each, timer/workqueue, and task-work callback arguments. The existing\nidentity check can then reject mismatched inner maps while allowing a\ncallback value to be paired with its actual map."
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