# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98060"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:24:05.380Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:13:08.516Z"
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-2026-98060"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98060.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98060"
title: "bpf: Reject resilient lock operations in rbtree callbacks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Reject resilient lock operations in rbtree callbacks\n\n__bpf_rbtree_add() keeps parent and link pointers live across calls to the\nprogram-supplied comparison callback. The verifier therefore requires the\nroot's lock to remain held throughout the callback.\n\nThe helper path enforces this rule for bpf_spin_lock() and\nbpf_spin_unlock(), but the resilient lock kfunc argument path does not.\nSince resilient locks may protect BPF rbtree roots, a callback can release\nthe root lock and let another CPU remove and free the node referenced by\nthe in-progress tree walk. The walk then resumes using freed pointers.\n\nReject resilient lock kfuncs in an rbtree comparison callback, matching\nthe existing policy for the spin lock helpers. Resilient-lock-protected\ntrees remain valid when their comparison callbacks leave lock state alone."
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