CVE-2025-40169 – bpf: Reject negative offsets for ALU ops

CVE ID : CVE-2025-40169

Published : Nov. 12, 2025, 11:15 a.m. | 16 minutes ago

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

bpf: Reject negative offsets for ALU ops

When verifying BPF programs, the check_alu_op() function validates
instructions with ALU operations. The ‘offset’ field in these
instructions is a signed 16-bit integer.

The existing check ‘insn->off > 1’ was intended to ensure the offset is
either 0, or 1 for BPF_MOD/BPF_DIV. However, because ‘insn->off’ is
signed, this check incorrectly accepts all negative values (e.g., -1).

This commit tightens the validation by changing the condition to
‘(insn->off != 0 && insn->off != 1)’. This ensures that any value
other than the explicitly permitted 0 and 1 is rejected, hardening the
verifier against malformed BPF programs.

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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