CVE-2026-98382

Status: ReceivedUnscored—

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Reject dev-bound-only programs on other devices

__bpf_offload_dev_match() falls back to comparing offdev pointers after an exact netdev mismatch. Bound-only programs normally have NULL offdevs, so unrelated netdevs compare equal. A bound-only program on an offload-registered netdev can instead inherit a real offdev and match a sibling port. With CAP_BPF and CAP_NET_ADMIN, a caller can use bpf(BPF_LINK_CREATE) with a different target ifindex to run metadata kfuncs specialized for the bound driver on the target driver's xdp_buff. Running a veth-bound program on tun reads beyond tun's bare stack xdp_buff as a veth_xdp_buff.

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Restrict non-offloaded programs to exact netdev matches and retain the shared-offdev fallback only for genuinely offloaded multi-port programs.

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report

  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
  KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000010-0x0000000000000017]
  RIP: 0010:veth_xdp_rx_timestamp (drivers/net/veth.c:1673)
  Call Trace:
   ...
   tun_build_skb (drivers/net/tun.c:1739)
   tun_get_user (drivers/net/tun.c:1856)
   tun_chr_write_iter (drivers/net/tun.c:2091)
   vfs_write (fs/read_write.c:595 fs/read_write.c:687)
   ksys_write (fs/read_write.c:739)
   do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:84)
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

CVSS

NVD hasn't assigned a CVSS score to this CVE (common since the April 2026 policy change).

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.16%
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 4
Score date: 10/13/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.

Linux — Linux Kernel^AI

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