Bug 2555221 (CVE-2026-98856) - CVE-2026-98856 kernel: kprobes: Skip disarmed probes when checking optkprobe overlap
Summary: CVE-2026-98856 kernel: kprobes: Skip disarmed probes when checking optkprobe ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98856
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 DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-18 16:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-23 13:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 16:02:49 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kprobes: Skip disarmed probes when checking optkprobe overlap

On x86, an optkprobe at A replaces five bytes with a jump. If a disabled
probe B is at A+2, get_optimized_kprobe() stops at B when arming a new
probe C at A+4. It leaves A optimized:

              A    A+1  A+2  A+3  A+4
  A's jump  | e9 | d0 | d1 | d2 | d3 |
  after C   | e9 | d0 | d1 | d2 | cc |

The INT3 for C overwrites the last byte of A's jump displacement, so
execution can jump to the wrong address. B can have prepared optinsns
while disarmed, but has no jump to unoptimize.

Continue past disarmed and unprepared probes to find the active optimized
probe before arming a probe in its jump.


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