bpf, arm64: Force 8-byte alignment for JIT buffer to prevent atomic tearing (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-23383
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, arm64: Force 8-byte alignment for JIT buffer to prevent atomic tearing struct bpf_plt contains a u64 target field. Currently, the BPF JIT allocator requests an alignment of 4 bytes (sizeof(u32)) for the JIT buffer. Because the base address of the JIT buffer can be 4-byte aligned (e.g., ending in 0x4 or 0xc), the relative padding logic in build_plt() fails to ensure that target lands on an 8-byte boundary. This leads to two issues: 1. UBSAN reports misaligned-access warnings when dereferencing the structure. 2. More critically, target is updated concurrently via WRITE_ONCE() in bpf_arch_text_poke() while the JIT'd code executes ldr. On arm64, 64-bit loads/stores are only guaranteed to be single-copy atomic if they are 64-bit aligned. A misaligned target risks a torn read, causing the JIT to jump to a corrupted address. Fix this by increasing the allocation alignment requirement to 8 bytes (sizeof(u64)) in bpf_jit_binary_pack_alloc(). This anchors the base of the JIT buffer to an 8-byte boundary, allowing the relative padding math in build_plt() to correctly align the target field.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected b2ad54e1533e91449cb2a371e034942bd7882b58 < fcb9c6275f712860c22c96a472b73d05cabb75cd ; affected b2ad54e1533e91449cb2a371e034942bd7882b58 < f5a41b61b5faae1965a5a2cb55322fe8f17e3b2d ; affected b2ad54e1533e91449cb2a371e034942bd7882b58 < 80ad264da02cc4aee718e799c2b79f0f834673dc ; affected b2ad54e1533e91449cb2a371e034942bd7882b58 < 519b1ad91de5bf7a496f2b858e9212db6328e1de ; affected b2ad54e1533e91449cb2a371e034942bd7882b58 < 66959ed481a474eaae278c7f6860a2a9b188a4d6 ; affected b2ad54e1533e91449cb2a371e034942bd7882b58 < ef06fd16d48704eac868441d98d4ef083d8f3d07
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.0 ; unaffected 0 < 6.0 ; unaffected 6.1.191 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.77 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.17 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD