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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98813" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:48:59.745Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:26:06.490Z" 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-2026-98813" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98813.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98813" title: "bpf: Hold map BTF for the memory allocator destructor record" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Hold map BTF for the memory allocator destructor record\n\nbpf_ma_set_dtor() duplicates map-\u003erecord so that the bpf_mem_alloc\ndestructor can release the special fields of hash and rhash map elements\nonce the allocator frees them for good. btf_record_dup() only acquires\nreferences on kernel and module BTF. Fields whose types live in the map\nBTF keep pointing into it: a kptr to a local type refers to map-\u003ebtf,\nand a list_head or rb_root field carries a value_rec owned by the struct\nmeta table of map-\u003ebtf.\n\nThat borrowed state can outlive the map. When RCU callbacks are still in\nflight, bpf_mem_alloc_destroy() copies the allocator and defers the final\ndrain, together with the destructor context, to a workqueue.\nbpf_map_free() then frees map-\u003erecord and drops the map's BTF reference\nas soon as map_free() returns. Once the program that loaded the BTF is\ngone as well, the BTF is freed while the worker still uses the\nduplicate. The worker dereferences it through btf_is_kernel() and\nbtf_find_struct_meta() in bpf_obj_free_fields() when destroying elements\nthat were freed under RCU, and through btf_is_kernel() in\nbtf_record_free() when releasing the context itself:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in btf_is_kernel+0x19/0x30\n Read of size 1 at addr ffff88811505dce8 by task kworker/u16:2/50\n Workqueue: events_unbound free_mem_alloc_deferred\n Call Trace:\n btf_is_kernel+0x19/0x30\n btf_record_free+0xc7/0xf0\n htab_dtor_ctx_free+0x1a/0x30\n free_mem_alloc_no_barrier+0x39/0x230\n free_mem_alloc_deferred+0x2a/0x40\n process_scheduled_works+0x5ce/0x9d0\n worker_thread+0x42a/0x5e0\n kthread+0x1f5/0x230\n ret_from_fork+0x1dd/0x390\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\n Allocated by task 358:\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x287/0x510\n btf_new_fd+0xf7/0x3d0\n __sys_bpf+0x487/0x840\n\n Freed by task 0:\n kfree+0x186/0x560\n rcu_core+0x6f6/0xd40\n\nFreeing a map that still holds more elements than the allocator's high\nwatermark is enough to get there, because the bulk free during teardown\nqueues the RCU callback that makes bpf_mem_alloc_destroy() defer.\nNon-preallocated hash maps and resizable hash maps both register the\ndestructor and are affected alike.\n\nKeep one reference on the map BTF in the destructor context. Every\nnon-kernel pointer in the duplicated record is either map-\u003ebtf or memory\nowned by it, so a single reference covers kptrs, list heads, and rb\nroots, and mirrors what bpf_map_meta_alloc() does for the duplicated\nrecord of an inner map. Release it only after the duplicated record has\nbeen freed: the worker is preemptible and not in an RCU read-side\ncritical section, so dropping the last reference first would let the\nBTF be freed while btf_record_free() still reads its fields." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1df97a7453eec80c1912c2d0360290a3970a7671","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b506f5699e145196ee29d76cf1ca1cbb2202c055"},{"version":"1df97a7453eec80c1912c2d0360290a3970a7671","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab39974240a0cff765f3bb9cce81d8001ffdb144"},{"version":"451a84a3ad3c897c03181af433e7c98640730f1f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"51a17f0ce19c4ee2a25cf16c93490d509b1ebb0a","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.0"},{"version":"7.2.10","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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