# 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-2026-98626"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:19:47.832Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:22:54.307Z"
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-2026-98626"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98626.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98626"
title: "bpf: Restrict CO-RE poisoning to relocatable instructions"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Restrict CO-RE poisoning to relocatable instructions\n\nCO-RE relocation records can name any instruction offset. When a\nrelocation cannot be resolved, bpf_core_patch_insn() currently poisons its\ntarget before checking whether that instruction is a valid relocation\ntarget. Malformed metadata can therefore replace jumps, calls, exits,\nregister-source arithmetic, or non-immediate loads instead of failing at\nthe relocation step.\n\nHandle poisoning only after the instruction has passed the same class and\noperand-form checks used for a resolved relocation. Route invalid forms\nthrough the existing diagnostic and return a hard error. Keep poisoning\nsupported instructions, including both halves of a plain ldimm64, so an\nunresolved relocation in dead code remains valid.\n\nExtend bpf_core_poison_insn() to poison both halves of ldimm64, and return\nits status directly from each validated instruction case. This avoids\nrouting the success path through a common label and leaves the helper free\nto report errors.\n\nThe shared relocation code applies this restriction to both libbpf and\nin-kernel CO-RE."
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