# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98039"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:52.360Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:44.994Z"
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-2026-98039"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98039.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98039"
title: "bpf: Require MEM_PERCPU for percpu kptr stores"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Require MEM_PERCPU for percpu kptr stores\n\nmap_kptr_match_type() treats perm_flags as the set of register type flags\nthat a kptr field permits. Adding MEM_PERCPU to that set for\nBPF_KPTR_PERCPU does not require the source register to carry it, however.\nThe subset test consequently accepts both a plain bpf_obj_new() allocation\nand a referenced kernel pointer into a __percpu_kptr map field.\n\nLoads from the field are always marked MEM_PERCPU. Consumers then treat the\nstored value as the cookie returned by bpf_percpu_obj_new(): per-CPU pointer\nhelpers relocate it, and map teardown selects the per-CPU free path. A plain\nallocation can therefore provide an arbitrary kernel read/write, while a\nkernel pointer can be relocated into an invalid address or sent through a\nmissing destructor.\n\nRequire the source MEM_PERCPU flag to match the destination field kind.\nThis preserves valid bpf_percpu_obj_new() stores and rejects both the\nprogram-BTF and kernel-BTF variants."
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