CVE-2026-72112

CVE CVE-2026-72112EUVD EUVD-2026-59070Published 2026-08-15T05:52:53.000ZLast changed 2026-08-17T05:40:26.000ZCVSS 7.8

What the advisory describes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/bpf-ops: reject re-registration of an already-bound ops io_install_bpf() only rejects a second registration on the ctx side (ctx->bpf_ops) and sets the per-map back-pointer ops->priv unconditionally. The struct_ops link path never advances a map past BPF_STRUCT_OPS_STATE_READY, so the same io_uring_bpf_ops map can be registered more than once, and bpf_io_reg() re-resolves the target ring via fget(ops->ring_fd) on every call. A caller can therefore point the same ring_fd at a different io_ring_ctx between two BPF_LINK_CREATE calls. The second registration passes the ctx->bpf_ops check (the new ctx has none) and overwrites ops->priv, orphaning the first ctx. Teardown (io_eject_bpf()/bpf_io_unreg()) only reaches a ctx through ops->priv, so the orphaned ctx is never torn down: its ctx->loop_step keeps pointing into the struct_ops trampoline, which is freed once the map is gone. A later io_uring_enter() on the orphaned ring then calls the dangling ctx->loop_step from io_run_loop() -- a use-after-free of freed executable memory, reachable by a task with CAP_BPF + CAP_PERFMON. Reject registration when ops->priv is already set, as hid_bpf_reg() does for its struct_ops.

Source: EUVD (ENISA), in the words of the advisory.

Products the advisory names

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• Linux — Linux patch: 0; patch: 7.2; 98f37634b12b17ad5c56db8fb63cf9d7dc55d74c <0639ea767fe04c288a8d6cb826100fe3d95d4936; 98f37634b12b17ad5c56db8fb63cf9d7dc55d74c <3afc64c61ce906a04f073ca350b46de10e8302f9; 7.1; patch: 7.1.5

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• Linux — Linux

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