CVE-2026-90358 (GCVE-0-2026-90358)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-17 16:09 – Updated: 2026-09-18 17:54
VLAI
Title
bpf, x86: Fix trampoline stack size for 128-bit arguments
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, x86: Fix trampoline stack size for 128-bit arguments btf_distill_func_proto() accepts a function argument up to 16 bytes, so a 128-bit scalar such as __int128 reaches the x86 trampoline with arg_size == 16. But the current implementation assumes an __int128 argument only needs one register, so the register save area is under-allocated and save_args() overwrites adjacent stack slots. Compute the register count from arg_size for all arguments to fix it.
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: a9c5ad31fbdc4dec6d266fe22e51de1ad6d1bcf2 , < 4aed2346fa9b88d458eeb8c01123f3c07585a675 (git)
Affected: a9c5ad31fbdc4dec6d266fe22e51de1ad6d1bcf2 , < 40f3bfbbb222b92278f3797614b70f68d46824ac (git)
Affected: a9c5ad31fbdc4dec6d266fe22e51de1ad6d1bcf2 , < a6d7d7a253c550e74b0651897fe313c2f9b2301f (git)
Affected: a9c5ad31fbdc4dec6d266fe22e51de1ad6d1bcf2 , < 814cba835ef648e0c5eb79505c96c0493b29eea6 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.110 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.52 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.6 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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