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CVE-2026-31413

bpf: Fix unsound scalar forking in maybe_fork_scalars() for BPF_OR

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Fix
Fixed in 6.12.80, 6.18.21, 6.19.11
1 proof of concept on GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix unsound scalar forking in maybe_fork_scalars() for BPF_OR maybe_fork_scalars() is called for both BPF_AND and BPF_OR when the source operand is a constant. When dst has signed range [-1, 0], it forks the verifier state: the pushed path gets dst = 0, the current path gets dst = -1. For BPF_AND this is correct: 0 & K == 0. For BPF_OR this is wrong: 0 | K == K, not 0. The pushed path therefore tracks dst as 0 when the runtime value is K, producing an exploitable verifier/runtime divergence that allows out-of-bounds map access. Fix this by passing env->insn_idx (instead of env->insn_idx + 1) to push_stack(), so the pushed path re-executes the ALU instruction with dst = 0 and naturally computes the correct result for any opcode.

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    Version range not reported

  • Linux Linux

    From 6.12.75 · fixed in 6.12.80; From 6.18.16 · fixed in 6.18.21; From 6.19.6 · fixed in 6.19.11

References 5

git.kernel.org

GitHub · Rat5ak/CVE-2026-31413-BPF-Container-Escape