Bug 2555024 (CVE-2026-98588) - CVE-2026-98588 kernel: bpf, sockmap: Reject max_entries > INT_MAX in sock_map_alloc
Summary: CVE-2026-98588 kernel: bpf, sockmap: Reject max_entries > INT_MAX in sock_map...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98588
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-18 15:39 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-20 04:10 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:39:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf, sockmap: Reject max_entries > INT_MAX in sock_map_alloc

sock_map_alloc() only rejects max_entries == 0 and otherwise allows any
u32 value.  sock_map_free() then walks the sks[] array with a signed int
iterator:

	int i;
	for (i = 0; i < stab->map.max_entries; i++)
		struct sock **psk = &stab->sks[i];

When a SOCKMAP is created with max_entries = 0xffffffff (UINT_MAX), the
allocation of 32 GiB can succeed on large-memory hosts.  During free the
counter reaches 0x80000000, wraps to INT_MIN, is sign-extended by movslq
and turned into a ~16 GiB negative offset from stab->sks, pointing far
below the allocation.

The faulting access is an xchg() write in sock_map_free().  Without
KASAN, the same out-of-bounds write can fault on an unmapped vmalloc page
or corrupt an unrelated allocation if that vmalloc address is populated.
On a KASAN kernel with CONFIG_KASAN_VMALLOC=y, the shadow check for that
address hits an unmapped shadow page and oopses first:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffff521b59c5a00
  RIP: 0010:kasan_check_range+0x107/0x190
  Call Trace:
   sock_map_free+0x93/0x190
   map_create+0x68d/0xb30
   __sys_bpf+0x21e/0x2e70

Vmcore confirmed stab->map.max_entries == 0xffffffff, stab->sks ==
0xffffc911ace2d000, and the faulting address sks + (s64)INT_MIN * 8
exactly at 0xffffc90dace2d000.  The same buggy path is reached on the
normal close()/bpf_map_free_deferred() path whenever such a map is
destroyed.

sock_map_alloc() used to bound its allocation size through
bpf_map_charge_init(), but the bound was dropped when rlimit-based memory
accounting was removed.  Reject max_entries > INT_MAX at creation time so
the signed iterator in sock_map_free() never sees a value that would
overflow.

Triggered by syzkaller and reproduced on both a 6.6-based KASAN kernel
and the upstream v7.3-rc2 kernel.


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