# 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-2026-98085"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:24:20.485Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:54:27.055Z"
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-2026-98085"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98085.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98085"
title: "bpf: backtrack_insn(): Handle ld_{abs,ind} subprog exit edge"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: backtrack_insn(): Handle ld_{abs,ind} subprog exit edge\n\nNicholas Carlini reported a bug in precision backtracking mechanism\nfor BPF_LD | BPF_{IND,ABS} instructions. These instructions are\nmodelled as two branches:\n- fallthrough;\n- implicit exit from current subprogram.\n\nThe implicit exit case was not handled by the backtrack_insn()\nfunction. When backtracking such a path backtrack_insn() did not\ncall bt_subprog_enter(), which meant that backtracking continued\nmanipulating precision marks in a caller frame, while looking at\ninstructions in a callee frame.\n\nThis lead to segmentation faults during verification (see the\nselftest), or unsound state pruning."
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