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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98643" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:20:14.561Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:23:12.946Z" 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-2026-98643" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98643.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98643" title: "bpf: Fix out-of-bounds read of rtt_min in sock_ops" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix out-of-bounds read of rtt_min in sock_ops\n\nA sockops prog reading skops-\u003ertt_min never checks the sk type: on the\ntcp_conn_request() path sock_ops-\u003esk is a request_sock (non-full), and the\nctx rewrite casts it to a tcp_sock (full) and reads rtt_min past the end of\nthe request_sock, returning dirty adjacent memory.\n\n\tSEC(\"sockops\")\n\tint prog(struct bpf_sock_ops *skops)\n\t{\n\t\tswitch (skops-\u003eop) {\n\t\tcase BPF_SOCK_OPS_RWND_INIT:\n\t\t\tleak = skops-\u003ertt_min; /* reads the request_sock OOB */\n\t\t...\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\nFor instance one such read returned rtt_min=0xffff8881, the high half of a\nleaked kernel pointer.\n\nGuarding that cast is exactly what SOCK_OPS_GET_FIELD() does -- it checks\nis_locked_tcp_sock and returns 0 when sock_ops-\u003esk is not a locked full\nsocket. Every other tcp_sock field in sock_ops goes through it; rtt_min is\nthe only one open-coded, so it skips the check.\n\nRead rtt_min through SOCK_OPS_GET_FIELD() too. rtt_min is a bit special:\nit is a struct minmax and we only want the current min, so pass\nrtt_min.s[0].v. That is equivalent to the old hand-computed offset\n\n\toffsetof(struct tcp_sock, rtt_min) + sizeof_field(struct minmax_sample, t)\n\n(s[0] sits at rtt_min + 0 and .v at + sizeof(.t), i.e. what minmax_get()\nreturns), so the loaded field is unchanged and only the full-sock guard is\nadded. The two BUILD_BUG_ON()s that protected the hand-computed offset\nare no longer needed.\n\nBefore patch:\n\n\t0: r1 = *(u64 *)(r1 +0) ; r1 = skops-\u003esk\n\t1: r1 = *(u32 *)(r1 +2324) ; ((tcp_sock *)sk)-\u003ertt_min.s[0].v\n\nAfter patch:\n\n\t0: *(u64 *)(r1 +56) = r9\n\t1: r9 = *(u8 *)(r1 +50) ; is_locked_tcp_sock\n\t2: if r9 == 0 goto pc+4 ; not a locked full sock -\u003e 0\n\t3: r9 = *(u64 *)(r1 +56)\n\t4: r1 = *(u64 *)(r1 +0) ; r1 = skops-\u003esk\n\t5: r1 = *(u32 *)(r1 +2324) ; rtt_min.s[0].v\n\t6: goto pc+2\n\t7: r9 = *(u64 *)(r1 +56)\n\t8: r1 = 0" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c796efa919f52f788c22c79d1f1b70321696b3d"},{"version":"44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc9d0e6e9d86fbefe7b8fe6ee49f4cf102add79d"},{"version":"44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd6bf2721933d8c90bc4ce57f3e204c9295e7e3f"},{"version":"44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8a9becbac93a9f54f4d565f1f3005eb08a7912f"},{"version":"44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a46f14e6cf375f3ca38f8f6e6524749e24ea0a8"},{"version":"44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6785313d4fac96afb21ef193610c1fa88b1a9e64"},{"version":"44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cba54d142c43ec96d8c4d566f66439e8c0afded7"},{"version":"44f0e43037d3a17b043843ba67610ac7c7e37db6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75f8cf22463d82bb1fb0239a3d485fc8f4c8ef03"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.16"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"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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