Conditional kernel panic via raw-address BTF kprobe
Published Aug 28, 2026 · Updated Aug 28, 2026
Improper warning handling in Linux allows local users to trigger a kernel warning through a raw-address kprobe event with a BTF argument. parse_btf_arg invokes WARN_ON_ONCE when a raw-address probe lacks function-name context, although that user-controlled condition is expected and the parser returns an error. Creating the event requires local tracefs access, and service interruption occurs only when panic_on_warn is enabled.
Summary
What happened
Improper warning handling in Linux allows local users to trigger a kernel warning through a raw-address kprobe event with a BTF argument. parse_btf_arg invokes WARN_ON_ONCE when a raw-address probe lacks function-name context, although that user-controlled condition is expected and the parser returns an error. Creating the event requires local tracefs access, and service interruption occurs only when panic_on_warn is enabled.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-80607
- Published
- Aug 28, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 28, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- Unavailable
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- Aug 28, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 28, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.5
- Affected versionversion=b576e09701c7d045bbe5cd85d53e2f34426aa214 <251a8fe1b9aedccd298b77bc28426d564c5a923f
- Affected versionversion=b576e09701c7d045bbe5cd85d53e2f34426aa214 <8a662d8c05e2cf16f7a047c81bc1eb5d3b29bacd
- Affected versionversion=b576e09701c7d045bbe5cd85d53e2f34426aa214 <f148f86c65b8f9ef2466ad8506e721749e4957fb
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