Kernel crash via pre-rounding BPF bucket overflow
Published Apr 17, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Integer overflow in the Linux kernel BPF hashtable on 32-bit systems allows local users to crash the kernel through a crafted map. The bucket count is rounded before the overflow guard, so a 32-bit unsigned-long shift invokes undefined behavior instead of reliably producing the zero value that the guard expects. The path requires local low-privileged access to create a large BPF hash map; Siemens rates the product-specific consequence as an availability loss.
Summary
What happened
Integer overflow in the Linux kernel BPF hashtable on 32-bit systems allows local users to crash the kernel through a crafted map. The bucket count is rounded before the overflow guard, so a 32-bit unsigned-long shift invokes undefined behavior instead of reliably producing the zero value that the guard expects. The path requires local low-privileged access to create a large BPF hash map; Siemens rates the product-specific consequence as an availability loss.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-26884
- Published
- Apr 17, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- Siemens
- Product
- SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem
- Classifications
- CWE-20, CWE-190, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Apr 17, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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