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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98150"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:36:22.774Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:14:43.287Z"
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-2026-98150"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98150.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98150"
title: "bpf: Fix BPF_F_CPU validation for sparse CPU IDs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix BPF_F_CPU validation for sparse CPU IDs\n\nBPF_F_CPU stores the target CPU ID in the upper 32 bits of the map\noperation flags. bpf_map_check_op_flags() currently compares that ID\nwith num_possible_cpus(), which is the number of possible CPUs rather\nthan a bound on CPU IDs.\n\nOn an arm64 QEMU guest with a CPU device-tree hole, the possible CPU\nmask was 0,2-3. A userspace program using raw bpf() syscalls creates\na BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY and performs update and lookup operations\nfor each CPU by setting BPF_F_CPU and the CPU ID in the flags.\n\nWith the old check, CPU 1 is incorrectly accepted while valid CPU 3 is\nrejected with -ERANGE. The CPU 1 update then reaches the per-CPU map\naccess path and triggers:\n\n  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ...\n  pc : __pi_memcpy_generic+0x5c/0x22c\n  lr : bpf_percpu_array_update+0x2dc/0x2e8\n  Call trace:\n    __pi_memcpy_generic\n    bpf_map_update_value\n    map_update_elem\n    __sys_bpf\n\nCheck the CPU ID against nr_cpu_ids and cpu_possible() instead. This\nrejects CPU IDs outside the valid range and CPUs absent from the\npossible mask, while allowing valid sparse CPU IDs."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2b421662c7887a0649fe409155a1f101562d0fa9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bdc5941f6eeef90b76a07fd8ca38ac1933ba2195"},{"version":"2b421662c7887a0649fe409155a1f101562d0fa9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed54bf564ac52699cf4def3d0c2125d493e756f9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.0"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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