Bug 2541283 (CVE-2026-98064)

Summary: CVE-2026-98064 kernel: bpf: Fix NULL-ptr-deref when showing a void BTF type
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A local user can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) and crash the system by running a specially crafted BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter) program. The issue occurs within the BPF Type Format (BTF) component when attempting to display data referencing a void data type, which lacks a defined display handler. Because the kernel fails to verify the existence of this handler before invoking it, a null pointer dereference occurs, leading to a kernel crash.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-25 11:14:33 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix NULL-ptr-deref when showing a void BTF type

btf_modifier_show() resolves the modifier and then calls
btf_type_ops(t)->show() unconditionally. For the void type (type_id 0,
BTF_KIND_UNKN) kind_ops[] has no entry, so ->show is NULL.

A "const void" (a modifier resolving to void) cannot be a map key or
value - map_check_btf() rejects it because void has no size - so the map
dump path does not reach it. But bpf_snprintf_btf() takes a type_id
straight from the BPF program, and passing such a "const void" from the
vmlinux BTF NULL-derefs:

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]
RIP: 0010:btf_modifier_show (kernel/bpf/btf.c:2914)
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 btf_type_show (kernel/bpf/btf.c:8251)
 btf_type_snprintf_show (kernel/bpf/btf.c:8321)
 bpf_snprintf_btf (kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c:1047)
 bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp (net/bpf/test_run.c:829)
 __sys_bpf (kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4804)
 do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:121)
 </TASK>

Fall back to btf_df_show() when the resolved type has no show op; it
emits the "<unsupported kind:N>" placeholder already used for kinds like
FWD and FUNC. bpf_snprintf_btf() then returns the length as usual.