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CVE-2026-98384

Status: ReceivedUnscored—

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

bpf: Fix out-of-bounds read of sk_protocol in bpf_sock_destroy()

sk_protocol lives in struct sock, not in struct sock_common. A timewait or request sock handed to bpf_sock_destroy() by the tcp iterator is neither, so reading sk->sk_protocol runs past the object:

Only check sk_protocol on full socks. tcp_abort() already knows how to deal with TIME_WAIT and NEW_SYN_RECV socks. Also fix the comment, it never matched the code.

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in bpf_sock_destroy+0xc7/0xe0
Read of size 2 at addr ffff8881047d11b4 by task test_progs/428

Tainted: [W]=WARN
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x91/0xf0
 print_report+0xd1/0x630
 kasan_report+0xf3/0x130
 __asan_report_load2_noabort+0x14/0x30
 bpf_sock_destroy+0xc7/0xe0
 bpf_prog_c3dd61f9d9cd9f37_iter_tcp6_timewait+0x9f/0xb7
 bpf_iter_run_prog+0x538/0xde0
 bpf_iter_tcp_seq_show+0x26b/0x4b0
 bpf_seq_read+0x424/0x1210
 vfs_read+0x197/0xe40
 ksys_read+0x119/0x240
 __x64_sys_read+0x72/0xc0
 x64_sys_call+0x647/0x27e0
 do_syscall_64+0xe5/0x610
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

CVSS

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

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

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References

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