CVE-2026-45886: bpf: Fix bpf_xdp_store_bytes proto for read-only arg

Published May 27, 2026
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Updated

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix bpfxdpstorebytes proto for read-only arg

While making some maps in Cilium read-only from the BPF side, we noticed that the bpfxdpstorebytes proto is incorrect. In particular, the verifier was throwing the following error:

; ret = ctxstorebytes(ctx, l3off + offsetof(struct iphdr, saddr), &nat->address, 4, 0); 635: (79) r1 = (u64 )(r10 -144) ; R1=ctx() R10=fp0 fp-144=ctx() 636: (b4) w2 = 26 ; R2=26 637: (b4) w4 = 4 ; R4=4 638: (b4) w5 = 0 ; R5=0 639: (85) call bpfxdpstorebytes#190 write into map forbidden, valuesize=6 off=0 size=4

nat comes from a BPFFRDONLYPROG map, so R3 is a PTRTOMAPVALUE. The verifier checks the helper's memory access to R3 in checkmemsizereg, as it reaches ARGCONSTSIZE argument. The third argument has expected type ARGPTRTOUNINITMEM, which includes the MEMWRITE flag. The verifier thus checks for a BPFWRITE access on R3. Given R3 points to a read-only map, the check fails.

Conversely, ARGPTRTOUNINITMEM can also lead to the helper reading from uninitialized memory.

This patch simply fixes the expected argument type to match that of bpfskbstorebytes.

Affected Software

6 affected components
Linux Linux kernel
Linux Linux kernel>=5.18<6.1.165
Linux Linux kernel>=6.2<6.6.128
Linux Linux kernel>=6.7<6.12.75
Linux Linux kernel>=6.13<6.18.14
Linux Linux kernel>=6.19<6.19.4

Event History

May 27, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·12:16 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·12:16 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·02:17 PM
RemedyDescriptionSeverityWeaknessAffected Software

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