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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98065"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:24:08.406Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:13:14.981Z"
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-2026-98065"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98065.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98065"
title: "bpf: Reject key-less BTF for hash maps"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Reject key-less BTF for hash maps\n\nmap_check_btf() allows a key-less BTF (btf_key_type_id == 0) only for\nmaps that have a -\u003emap_check_btf callback, and leaves the actual\ndecision to that callback. Hash maps used to have no -\u003emap_check_btf,\nso a key-less BTF was rejected outright.\n\nThat changed when htab and rhtab gained a -\u003emap_check_btf to register a\ndtor - htab in commit 1df97a7453ee (\"bpf: Register dtor for freeing\nspecial fields\") and rhtab in commit 6905f8601298 (\"bpf: Allow special\nfields in resizable hashtab\"). Neither looks at the key, so a key-less\nhash map now passes map_check_btf() and gets created. Reading it back\nthrough bpffs feeds the key type_id 0 into btf_type_seq_show();\nbtf_type_by_id() returns the void type, kind_ops[BTF_KIND_UNKN] is NULL,\nand btf_type_show() dereferences it:\n\nRIP: 0010:btf_type_show+0x223/0x2e0 kernel/bpf/btf.c:8232\nRSP: 0018:ffffc9000399f868 EFLAGS: 00010206\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000005 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000028\nRBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: ffffc9000399f970 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffffff9b96b140\nR13: ffffc9000399f8e0 R14: ffff88803d393c00 R15: 0000000000000003\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 0000200000000000 CR3: 000000003d213000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0\nDR0: 0000000039ae8f55 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n btf_type_seq_show_flags+0xca/0x120 kernel/bpf/btf.c:8250\n htab_map_seq_show_elem+0x12e/0x350 kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1669\n map_seq_show+0x13d/0x1e0 kernel/bpf/inode.c:293\n traverse.part.0.constprop.0+0x107/0x650 fs/seq_file.c:112\n traverse fs/seq_file.c:99 [inline]\n seq_read_iter+0x93f/0x1270 fs/seq_file.c:196\n seq_read+0x344/0x4d0 fs/seq_file.c:163\n vfs_read+0x1e4/0xb40 fs/read_write.c:572\n ksys_pread64 fs/read_write.c:764 [inline]\n __do_sys_pread64 fs/read_write.c:772 [inline]\n __se_sys_pread64 fs/read_write.c:769 [inline]\n __x64_sys_pread64+0x1eb/0x250 fs/read_write.c:769\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:61 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x123/0x790 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nReject a key-less BTF in htab_map_check_btf() and rhtab_map_check_btf(),\nrestoring the previous behavior."
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