CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-63864

HighCVSS 8.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.12%

2th percentile - higher than 2% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability in the BPF subsystem was found where the return value of visit_tailcall_insn() is not checked. This could lead to undefined behavior.

Risk Assessment

Failure to check the error code may allow an attacker to exploit an incorrect stack state in BPF tail calls, potentially leading to privilege escalation or information disclosure.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version that includes the fix propagating the error from visit_tailcall_insn.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Propagate error from visit_tailcall_insn Commit e40f5a6bf88a ("bpf: correct stack liveness for tail calls") added visit_tailcall_insn() but did not check its return value.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS