In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject %p% format string in bprintf-like helpers static const char fmt[] = "%p%"; bpf_trace_printk(fmt, sizeof(fmt)); The above BPF program isn't rejected and causes a kernel warning at runtime: Please remove unsupported %\x00 in format string WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7244 at lib/vsprintf.c:2680 format_decode+0x49c/0x5d0 This happens because bpf_bprintf_prepare skips over the second %, detected as punctuation, while processing %p. This patch fixes it by not skipping over punctuation. %\x00 is then processed in the next iteration and rejected.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c5f5fd47bbda17cb885fe6f03730702cd53d3f8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61d5fa45ed13e42af14c7e959baba9908b8ee6d4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6952aeace93f8c9ea01849efecac24dd3152c9c9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97303e541e12f1fea97834ec64b98991e8775f39 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7be679124bae8cf4fa6e40d7e1661baddfb3289 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8242745871f81a3ac37f9f51853d12854fd0b58 Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.5 · linux, debianNVD modified 2026-10-15 22:18
Affected (CPE criteria) 8
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c5f5fd47bbda17cb885fe6f03730702cd53d3f8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61d5fa45ed13e42af14c7e959baba9908b8ee6d4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6952aeace93f8c9ea01849efecac24dd3152c9c9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97303e541e12f1fea97834ec64b98991e8775f39 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7be679124bae8cf4fa6e40d7e1661baddfb3289 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8242745871f81a3ac37f9f51853d12854fd0b58 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory