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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98588" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:19:00.934Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:22:13.833Z" 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-2026-98588" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98588.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98588" title: "bpf, sockmap: Reject max_entries \u003e INT_MAX in sock_map_alloc" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, sockmap: Reject max_entries \u003e INT_MAX in sock_map_alloc\n\nsock_map_alloc() only rejects max_entries == 0 and otherwise allows any\nu32 value. sock_map_free() then walks the sks[] array with a signed int\niterator:\n\n\tint i;\n\tfor (i = 0; i \u003c stab-\u003emap.max_entries; i++)\n\t\tstruct sock **psk = &stab-\u003esks[i];\n\nWhen a SOCKMAP is created with max_entries = 0xffffffff (UINT_MAX), the\nallocation of 32 GiB can succeed on large-memory hosts. During free the\ncounter reaches 0x80000000, wraps to INT_MIN, is sign-extended by movslq\nand turned into a ~16 GiB negative offset from stab-\u003esks, pointing far\nbelow the allocation.\n\nThe faulting access is an xchg() write in sock_map_free(). Without\nKASAN, the same out-of-bounds write can fault on an unmapped vmalloc page\nor corrupt an unrelated allocation if that vmalloc address is populated.\nOn a KASAN kernel with CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC=y, the shadow check for that\naddress hits an unmapped shadow page and oopses first:\n\n BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffff521b59c5a00\n RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x107/0x190\n Call Trace:\n sock_map_free+0x93/0x190\n map_create+0x68d/0xb30\n __sys_bpf+0x21e/0x2e70\n\nVmcore confirmed stab-\u003emap.max_entries == 0xffffffff, stab-\u003esks ==\n0xffffc911ace2d000, and the faulting address sks + (s64)INT_MIN * 8\nexactly at 0xffffc90dace2d000. The same buggy path is reached on the\nnormal close()/bpf_map_free_deferred() path whenever such a map is\ndestroyed.\n\nsock_map_alloc() used to bound its allocation size through\nbpf_map_charge_init(), but the bound was dropped when rlimit-based memory\naccounting was removed. Reject max_entries \u003e INT_MAX at creation time so\nthe signed iterator in sock_map_free() never sees a value that would\noverflow.\n\nTriggered by syzkaller and reproduced on both a 6.6-based KASAN kernel\nand the upstream v7.3-rc2 kernel." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0d2c4f9640501ff57ba0be1f5644a02c29a02fa1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4a73f49e256bd835368504462be3b57b03febff"},{"version":"0d2c4f9640501ff57ba0be1f5644a02c29a02fa1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c56191af3a578b9cc265fa3bd5fc0752c59c1781"},{"version":"0d2c4f9640501ff57ba0be1f5644a02c29a02fa1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"909f761868fda329dc69130ef9eb5b5795bcdf00"},{"version":"0d2c4f9640501ff57ba0be1f5644a02c29a02fa1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc70972ddbf0e3398f2f32624d31db78594d50d8"},{"version":"0d2c4f9640501ff57ba0be1f5644a02c29a02fa1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cea597519b9ca6d691c98d92460ead8ece2a07af"},{"version":"0d2c4f9640501ff57ba0be1f5644a02c29a02fa1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ba7d627dbc67d62df2fa66d7b41e743c3ace0ec8"},{"version":"0d2c4f9640501ff57ba0be1f5644a02c29a02fa1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"814a81c842bd88f6bd8a4ce550d560df071a5d03"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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