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Any copy you make for such purposes is authorized provided that you reproduce MITRE's copyright designation and this license in any such copy." }, { "source": "FIRST EPSS", "url": "https://www.first.org/epss/", "licence": "free to use; FIRST requests attribution" } ], "record": { "id": "CVE-2026-23406", "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23406", "idYear": 2026, "status": "PUBLISHED", "publishedAt": "2026-04-01T08:36:36.460Z", "updatedAt": "2026-08-05T12:21:26.927Z", "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z", "snapshot": { "id": "cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline", "at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z", "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z" }, "facts": { "title": "apparmor: fix side-effect bug in match_char() macro usage", "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\napparmor: fix side-effect bug in match_char() macro usage\n\nThe match_char() macro evaluates its character parameter multiple\ntimes when traversing differential encoding chains. When invoked\nwith *str++, the string pointer advances on each iteration of the\ninner do-while loop, causing the DFA to check different characters\nat each iteration and therefore skip input characters.\nThis results in out-of-bounds reads when the pointer advances past\nthe input buffer boundary.\n\n[ 94.984676] ==================================================================\n[ 94.985301] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760\n[ 94.985655] Read of size 1 at addr ffff888100342000 by task file/976\n\n[ 94.986319] CPU: 7 UID: 1000 PID: 976 Comm: file Not tainted 6.19.0-rc7-next-20260127 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)\n[ 94.986322] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n[ 94.986329] Call Trace:\n[ 94.986341] \n[ 94.986347] dump_stack_lvl+0x5e/0x80\n[ 94.986374] print_report+0xc8/0x270\n[ 94.986384] ? aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760\n[ 94.986388] kasan_report+0x118/0x150\n[ 94.986401] ? aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760\n[ 94.986405] aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760\n[ 94.986408] __aa_path_perm+0x131/0x400\n[ 94.986418] aa_path_perm+0x219/0x2f0\n[ 94.986424] apparmor_file_open+0x345/0x570\n[ 94.986431] security_file_open+0x5c/0x140\n[ 94.986442] do_dentry_open+0x2f6/0x1120\n[ 94.986450] vfs_open+0x38/0x2b0\n[ 94.986453] ? may_open+0x1e2/0x2b0\n[ 94.986466] path_openat+0x231b/0x2b30\n[ 94.986469] ? __x64_sys_openat+0xf8/0x130\n[ 94.986477] do_file_open+0x19d/0x360\n[ 94.986487] do_sys_openat2+0x98/0x100\n[ 94.986491] __x64_sys_openat+0xf8/0x130\n[ 94.986499] do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x660\n[ 94.986515] ? count_memcg_events+0x15f/0x3c0\n[ 94.986526] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 94.986540] ? handle_mm_fault+0x1639/0x1ef0\n[ 94.986551] ? vma_start_read+0xf0/0x320\n[ 94.986558] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 94.986561] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 94.986563] ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x50/0xe0\n[ 94.986572] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 94.986574] ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x9/0xb0\n[ 94.986587] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5\n[ 94.986588] ? irqentry_exit+0x3c/0x590\n[ 94.986595] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n[ 94.986597] RIP: 0033:0x7fda4a79c3ea\n\nFix by extracting the character value before invoking match_char,\nensuring single evaluation per outer loop.", "affected": [ { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "versions": [ { "version": "074c1cd798cb0b481d7eaa749b64aa416563c053", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "c7dc56d8b37eda1396feeec3ab1c7ecee5eae31b" }, { "version": "074c1cd798cb0b481d7eaa749b64aa416563c053", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "f16f2e5936c0f5f0d11fdf10d2be3e47e7108e42" }, { "version": "074c1cd798cb0b481d7eaa749b64aa416563c053", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "1fc94f16098213d01e56c97feed9b3ecf0147a37" }, { "version": "074c1cd798cb0b481d7eaa749b64aa416563c053", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "5a184f7cbdeaad17e16dedf3c17d0cd622edfed8" }, { "version": "074c1cd798cb0b481d7eaa749b64aa416563c053", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "b73c1dff8a9d7eeaebabf8097a5b2de192f40913" }, { "version": "074c1cd798cb0b481d7eaa749b64aa416563c053", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "0510d1ba0976f97f521feb2b75b0572ea5df3ceb" }, { "version": "074c1cd798cb0b481d7eaa749b64aa416563c053", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "383b7270faf42564f133134c2fc3c24bbae52615" }, { "version": "074c1cd798cb0b481d7eaa749b64aa416563c053", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "8756b68edae37ff546c02091989a4ceab3f20abd" } ] }, { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "versions": [ { "version": "4.17", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThan": "4.17" }, { "version": "5.10.253", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.10.*" }, { "version": "5.15.203", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*" }, { "version": "6.1.169", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*" }, { "version": "6.6.130", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*" }, { "version": "6.12.77", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*" }, { "version": "6.18.18", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*" }, { "version": "6.19.8", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.19.*" }, { "version": "7.0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix", "lessThanOrEqual": "*" } ] } ] } } }