net/sched: cls_bpf: prevent unbounded recursion in offload rollback
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 4 without a fix
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: cls_bpf: prevent unbounded recursion in offload rollback Quan Sun reported [1] a stack overflow in cls_bpf_offload_cmd(). Reproducer on netdevsim: add a skip_sw cls_bpf filter, set the bpf_tc_accept debugfs knob to 0, then `tc filter replace`. The replace calls tc_setup_cb_replace() which fails. cls_bpf_offload_cmd() then swaps prog/oldprog and recursively calls itself to roll back. But bpf_tc_accept=0 makes the rollback fail too, which triggers yet another rollback frame with the same arguments, and so on until the stack is exhausted. bpf_tc_accept is just a convenient knob for the reproducer. Any driver whose tc_setup_cb_replace() fails twice in a row can hit the same loop, so this is not a netdevsim-only issue. Two ways to fix it: 1) Have the rollback call tc_setup_cb_add() on oldprog instead of re-entering cls_bpf_offload_cmd(). 2) Mark the rollback frame with a flag and skip a second-level rollback from inside it. Go with (2). It is the smaller change and keeps the original behaviour: the rollback still goes through tc_setup_cb_replace(), so the driver gets one real chance to restore its state. If that attempt also fails, we just return the original error instead of recursing. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]/T/#u
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
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Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.261, 5.15.212, 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-74382
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-v8p9-m6wc-2cv3
- 2026-11-06 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
Other 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a018f208ab7512380bd4cf670064d48cba00a1b1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33373e1f378a501bc51aa73312f74295c84e3101
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2d3b7bab3748c811dc5750ce9a8d62bc7f90ed7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a76953c3ed043797e81529b9395e9ca6f4c7609
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1387f252a242a51bfbb6eace29c8f8db21b457da
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10753da2d659dd425a6e620f47f86852d604f67f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fa6fb5d771c992ebedbfa7331c6bcc6f33f89b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27db54b90bcc7c37867fe664107fa25ea6a116e4
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Sources
- CVE-2026-74382 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-74382 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-v8p9-m6wc-2cv3 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-74382 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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