CVE-2026-92518 (GCVE-0-2026-92518)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-17 16:10
Modified
2026-10-19 09:04
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv, bpf: Fix kernel stack corruption in tailcall with CFI When CONFIG_CFI_CLANG is enabled, prog->bpf_func already skips the kcfi instruction during setup. Including it again in the tailcall jump offset causes it to jump over an extra 4 bytes, skipping the stack pointer adjustment, which will result in kernel stack corruption.
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Linux Linux Version: 30a59cc79754fd9ff3f41b7ee2eb21da85988548
Version: 30a59cc79754fd9ff3f41b7ee2eb21da85988548
Version: 30a59cc79754fd9ff3f41b7ee2eb21da85988548
Version: fe5b68fdcec0f3d97a32f4c4acfef59cf90718f7
Version: 6.11.6   ≤
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