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CVE-2026-45951

bpf: Fix a potential use-after-free of BTF object PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix a potential use-after-free of BTF object Refcounting in the check_pseudo_btf_id() function is incorrect: the __check_pseudo_btf_id() function might get called with a zero refcounted btf. Fix this, and patch related code accordingly. v3: rephrase a comment (AI) v2: fix a refcount leak introduced in v1 (AI)

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 76145f7255326761dafb76721a785799d8a00d5f before eac65c272f3b49021a843cba5107d63627395e0e; affected 76145f7255326761dafb76721a785799d8a00d5f before 9ff46ffeecdb1802d6e26183177935b948a12e7f; affected 76145f7255326761dafb76721a785799d8a00d5f before ccd2d799ed4467c07f5ee18c2f5c59bcc990822c
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.14; unaffected 0 before 6.14; unaffected 6.18.14 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.4 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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