CVE-2026-45933

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-45933

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

bpf: Preserve id of register in sync_linked_regs()

sync_linked_regs() copies the id of known_reg to reg when propagating

bounds of known_reg to reg using the off of known_reg, but when

known_reg was linked to reg like:

known_reg = reg ; both known_reg and reg get same id

known_reg += 4 ; known_reg gets off = 4, and its id gets BPF_ADD_CONST

now when a call to sync_linked_regs() happens, let's say with the following:

if known_reg >= 10 goto pc+2

known_reg's new bounds are propagated to reg but now reg gets

BPF_ADD_CONST from the copy.

This means if another link to reg is created like:

another_reg = reg ; another_reg should get the id of reg but

assign_scalar_id_before_mov() sees

BPF_ADD_CONST on reg and assigns a new id to it.

As reg has a new id now, known_reg's link to reg is broken. If we find

new bounds for known_reg, they will not be propagated to reg.

This can be seen in the selftest added in the next commit:

0: (85) call bpf_get_prandom_u32#7 ; R0=scalar()

1: (57) r0 &= 255 ; R0=scalar(smin=smin32=0,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=255,var_off=(0x0; 0xff))

2: (bf) r1 = r0 ; R0=scalar(id=1,smin=smin32=0,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=255,var_off=(0x0; 0xff)) R1=scalar(id=1,smin=smin32=0,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=255,var_off=(0x0; 0xff))

3: (07) r1 += 4 ; R1=scalar(id=1+4,smin=umin=smin32=umin32=4,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=259,var_off=(0x0; 0x1ff))

4: (a5) if r1 < 0xa goto pc+4 ; R1=scalar(id=1+4,smin=umin=smin32=umin32=10,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=259,var_off=(0x0; 0x1ff))

5: (bf) r2 = r0 ; R0=scalar(id=2,smin=umin=smin32=umin32=6,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=255) R2=scalar(id=2,smin=umin=smin32=umin32=6,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=255)

6: (a5) if r1 < 0xe goto pc+2 ; R1=scalar(id=1+4,smin=umin=smin32=umin32=14,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=259,var_off=(0x0; 0x1ff))

7: (35) if r0 >= 0xa goto pc+1 ; R0=scalar(id=2,smin=umin=smin32=umin32=6,smax=umax=smax32=umax32=9,var_off=(0x0; 0xf))

8: (37) r0 /= 0

div by zero

When 4 is verified, r1's bounds are propagated to r0 but r0 also gets

BPF_ADD_CONST (bug).

When 5 is verified, r0 gets a new id (2) and its link with r1 is broken.

After 6 we know r1 has bounds [14, 259] and therefore r0 should have

bounds [10, 255], therefore the branch at 7 is always taken. But because

r0's id was changed to 2, r1's new bounds are not propagated to r0.

The verifier still thinks r0 has bounds [6, 255] before 7 and execution

can reach div by zero.

Fix this by preserving id in sync_linked_regs() like off and subreg_def. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References