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CVE-2026-45971

bpf: Limit bpf program signature size PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Limit bpf program signature size Practical BPF signatures are significantly smaller than KMALLOC_MAX_CACHE_SIZE Allowing larger sizes opens the door for abuse by passing excessive size values and forcing the kernel into expensive allocation paths (via kmalloc_large or vmalloc).

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 349271568303695f0ac3563af153d2b4542f6986 before 5835a077c6f5c565d525eaca9fac01572b97a9b9; affected 349271568303695f0ac3563af153d2b4542f6986 before eb8166c79097996396468a341de258a798789d36; affected 349271568303695f0ac3563af153d2b4542f6986 before ea1535e28bb3773fc0b3cbd1f3842b808016990c
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.18; unaffected 0 before 6.18; 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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