CVE-2026-98059

MEDIUM

MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100

Published: 2026-09-25 Modified: 2026-10-29 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local

AC: Low

PR: Low

UI: None

S: Unchanged

C: None

I: None

A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Mark sched_process_wait argument as nullable do_wait() passes wo->wo_pid to the sched_process_wait tracepoint. kernel_wait4() leaves wo_pid NULL for wait4(-1), and kernel_waitid_prepare() does likewise for waitid(P_ALL). btf_ctx_access() currently types argument 0 as PTR_TO_BTF_ID | PTR_TRUSTED. Without PTR_MAYBE_NULL, the verifier accepts an unchecked dereference. Trusted pointer loads have no fault protection, so a wait for any child can then cause a NULL pointer dereference in JITed BPF code. Add sched_process_wait to raw_tp_null_args[] with argument 0 marked nullable. The verifier rejects an unchecked dereference while preserving access after the program checks the pointer for NULL.

Weakness Classification (1)

CWE-476

Affected Software (8)

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	6.12.6 – 6.12.111
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	6.13
linux	linux_kernel	7.3