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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89556"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:44:29.080Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:48:49.102Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89556"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89556.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89556"
title: "module: validate string table section types"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmodule: validate string table section types\n\nIn elf_validity_cache_sechdrs, section sizes and offsets are validated,\nunless the section type is SHT_NULL or SHT_NOBITS.\n\nLater, elf_validity_cache_secstrings and elf_validity_cache_index_str\naccess the section name table (.shstrtab) and symbol string table\n(.strtab) headers without first ensuring that their types are\nSHT_STRTAB. If a section type is SHT_NULL or SHT_NOBITS, sh_offset has\nnot been validated and may reference out-of-bounds memory when\ndereferenced in elf_validity_cache_secstrings or\nelf_validity_cache_strtab.\n\nValidate that both string section headers are of type SHT_STRTAB before\ncaching them."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c92aab819d56d51631f0484ed7af11d9d8ff4cb0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"50d0aa7d25ba4bc3606f150cd69755068e79f97f"},{"version":"c92aab819d56d51631f0484ed7af11d9d8ff4cb0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e4496dda2c6d0acf7ba5fbce14a2723a8935ceee"},{"version":"c92aab819d56d51631f0484ed7af11d9d8ff4cb0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a5ff45689329835f874cefe5174e577d141d423"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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