Memory corruption in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-89905
Published: September 17, 2026
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to cause memory corruption.
The vulnerability exists due to improper stack layout handling in the LoongArch BPF JIT prologue and epilogue when compiling BPF programs. A local user can load a BPF program for JIT compilation to cause memory corruption.
Exploitation requires arena_vm_start to be dynamically enabled.
Affected software
Ubuntu
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-aws (Ubuntu package)
linux-gcp (Ubuntu package)
linux-oracle (Ubuntu package)
linux-ibm (Ubuntu package)
linux-hwe-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
How to mitigate CVE-2026-89905
linux-aws (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1016.17
linux-gcp (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1016.18
linux-oracle (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1015.16
linux-ibm (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1017.17
linux-hwe-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1017.17