CVE-2026-45971

medium

Description

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).

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb8166c79097996396468a341de258a798789d36

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ea1535e28bb3773fc0b3cbd1f3842b808016990c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5835a077c6f5c565d525eaca9fac01572b97a9b9

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-27

Updated: 2026-05-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017