# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98063"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:24:07.203Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:13:13.031Z"
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-2026-98063"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98063.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98063"
title: "bpf: Fix NULL-ptr-deref in btf_var_show()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix NULL-ptr-deref in btf_var_show()\n\nbtf_var_show() calls btf_type_id_resolve() unconditionally, which\ndereferences btf-\u003eresolved_ids. That is NULL for a base BTF - e.g. the\nvmlinux BTF that bpf_snprintf_btf() renders against - since base BTF is\nnot resolved during parsing. btf_modifier_show() guards this with\n'if (btf-\u003eresolved_ids)', but btf_var_show() does not.\n\nA BPF program that passes the type_id of a BTF_KIND_VAR from the vmlinux\nBTF to bpf_snprintf_btf() thus NULL-derefs:\n\nKASAN: probably user-memory-access in range [0x46638-0x4663f]\nRIP: 0010:btf_var_show (kernel/bpf/btf.c:2929)\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n btf_type_show (kernel/bpf/btf.c:8259)\n btf_type_snprintf_show (kernel/bpf/btf.c:8329)\n bpf_snprintf_btf (kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1047)\n bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp (net/bpf/test_run.c:829)\n __sys_bpf (kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4804)\n do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84)\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nResolve the var's type directly with btf_type_skip_modifiers() when\nresolved_ids is NULL, mirroring btf_modifier_show()."
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