{"id":"CVE-2026-23383","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-23383","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:39:12.902Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, arm64: Force 8-byte alignment for JIT buffer to prevent atomic tearing struct bpf_plt contains a u64 target field.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf, arm64: Force 8-byte alignment for JIT buffer to prevent atomic tearing\n\nstruct bpf_plt contains a u64 target field. Currently, the BPF JIT\nallocator requests an alignment of 4 bytes (sizeof(u32)) for the JIT\nbuffer.\n\nBecause the base address of the JIT buffer can be 4-byte aligned (e.g.,\nending in 0x4 or 0xc), the relative padding logic in build_plt() fails\nto ensure that target lands on an 8-byte boundary.\n\nThis leads to two issues:\n1. UBSAN reports misaligned-access warnings when dereferencing the\n   structure.\n2. More critically, target is updated concurrently via WRITE_ONCE() in\n   bpf_arch_text_poke() while the JIT'd code executes ldr. On arm64,\n   64-bit loads/stores are only guaranteed to be single-copy atomic if\n   they are 64-bit aligned. A misaligned target risks a torn read,\n   causing the JIT to jump to a corrupted address.\n\nFix this by increasing the allocation alignment requirement to 8 bytes\n(sizeof(u64)) in bpf_jit_binary_pack_alloc(). This anchors the base of\nthe JIT buffer to an 8-byte boundary, allowing the relative padding math\nin build_plt() to correctly align the target field.","published":"2026-03-25T11:16:38.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-21T13:18:36.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00174,"percentile":0.06817,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.17%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/519b1ad91de5bf7a496f2b858e9212db6328e1de","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66959ed481a474eaae278c7f6860a2a9b188a4d6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80ad264da02cc4aee718e799c2b79f0f834673dc","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef06fd16d48704eac868441d98d4ef083d8f3d07","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f5a41b61b5faae1965a5a2cb55322fe8f17e3b2d","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23383","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}