Bug 2482178 (CVE-2026-45927) - CVE-2026-45927 kernel: bpf: Require frozen map for calculating map hash
Summary: CVE-2026-45927 kernel: bpf: Require frozen map for calculating map hash
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-45927
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-05-27 15:14 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-28 10:24 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-27 15:14:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Require frozen map for calculating map hash

Currently, bpf_map_get_info_by_fd calculates and caches the hash of the
map regardless of the map's frozen state.

This leads to a TOCTOU bug where userspace can call
BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD to cache the hash and then modify the map
contents before freezing.

Therefore, a trusted loader can be tricked into verifying the stale hash
while loading the modified contents.

Fix this by returning -EPERM if the map is not frozen when the hash is
requested. This ensures the hash is only generated for the final,
immutable state of the map.


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