CVE-2026-74736 (GCVE-0-2026-74736)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-26 14:36 – Updated: 2026-08-27 05:00
VLAI
Title
net/sched: cls_bpf: reject dev-bound programs bound to a different device
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cls_bpf: reject dev-bound programs bound to a different device cls_bpf_prog_from_efd() obtained a SCHED_CLS program via bpf_prog_get_type_dev() but never verified that a device-bound (offloaded) program's bound netdev matches the TC netdev the classifier is being attached to. This let a program loaded with prog_ifindex for device A be attached via cls_bpf + skip_sw to device B; deleting device A then destroyed the program's offload state while it was still attached to device B, triggering a netdevsim WARN (panic with panic_on_warn=1). Mirror the XDP attach path (net/core/dev.c) and reject the attach with -EINVAL when a dev-bound program's bound device does not match the target device.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 , < ec5a552f4b2d841c6c021752450716e1a9676661 (git)
Affected: 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 , < daf546ab5763ce6a18280cb4db060e836c515301 (git)
Affected: 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 , < adb3e7c26a51a10d94a241c6de7a81a2863dcacf (git)
Affected: 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 , < 5685bbbd3cbfbeb0de96a1d275a5ca073dfebb5e (git)
Affected: 2b3486bc2d237ec345b3942b7be5deabf8c8fed1 , < 120977e2c096deea4e866e4273be9220b957c29e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.3
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.3 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.153 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.105 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.46 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1.10 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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