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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) 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"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23406" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23406.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23406" 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] \u003cTASK\u003e\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: [{"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":"unaffected"},{"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":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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