CVE-2026-90359

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject >8 byte return values on return-reading trampoline paths btf_distill_func_proto() builds the function model used for the fentry/fexit/fmod_ret/fsession trampolines and struct_ops. It has accepted a 16-byte __int128 return value since the trampoline was introduced: __get_type_size() returns the integer's type size, and the return-type check only rejected ret < 0. But the BPF trampoline preserves only 8 bytes of the return value (RAX on x86, i.e. R0). For an attach type that reads the target's return value the second half (RDX / R3) is neither saved nor restored, so a program attached to a function returning a 16-byte value corrupts the value seen by the real caller and itself observes only half of it. struct_ops trampolines have the same limitation. This affects the attach types that read the target's return value: fexit, fmod_ret and fsession (plus the _multi variants of fexit and fsession), and struct_ops. fentry/fentry_multi run before the target returns and are unaffected. Reject a >8 byte return value for these attach types in bpf_check_attach_target() and bpf_check_attach_btf_id_multi(), and for struct_ops in bpf_struct_ops_desc_init().

Severity

Not scored

CVSS score

Not available

Vulnerability status

Received

Source identifier

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2026-09-17 17:17:34.810000

Last modified

2026-10-21 13:20:52.317000

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  "id": "CVE-2026-90359",
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "published": "2026-09-17T17:17:34.810",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-21T13:20:52.317",
  "vulnStatus": "Received",
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Reject >8 byte return values on return-reading trampoline paths\n\nbtf_distill_func_proto() builds the function model used for the\nfentry/fexit/fmod_ret/fsession trampolines and struct_ops. It has\naccepted a 16-byte __int128 return value since the trampoline was\nintroduced: __get_type_size() returns the integer's type size, and the\nreturn-type check only rejected ret < 0.\n\nBut the BPF trampoline preserves only 8 bytes of the return value (RAX on\nx86, i.e. R0). For an attach type that reads the target's return value the\nsecond half (RDX / R3) is neither saved nor restored, so a program\nattached to a function returning a 16-byte value corrupts the value seen\nby the real caller and itself observes only half of it. struct_ops\ntrampolines have the same limitation.\n\nThis affects the attach types that read the target's return value: fexit,\nfmod_ret and fsession (plus the _multi variants of fexit and fsession),\nand struct_ops. fentry/fentry_multi run before the target returns and are\nunaffected.\n\nReject a >8 byte return value for these attach types in\nbpf_check_attach_target() and bpf_check_attach_btf_id_multi(), and for\nstruct_ops in bpf_struct_ops_desc_init()."
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