CVE-2026-23269
HIGHapparmor: validate DFA start states are in bounds in unpack_pdb
Title source: cnaDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: validate DFA start states are in bounds in unpack_pdb Start states are read from untrusted data and used as indexes into the DFA state tables. The aa_dfa_next() function call in unpack_pdb() will access dfa->tables[YYTD_ID_BASE][start], and if the start state exceeds the number of states in the DFA, this results in an out-of-bound read. ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in aa_dfa_next+0x2a1/0x360 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88811956fb90 by task su/1097 ... Reject policies with out-of-bounds start states during unpacking to prevent the issue.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
7.1
EPSS
0.0002
EPSS Percentile
4.5%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (23)
linux/Kernel
3.4.0 - 6.6.130linux
linux/Kernel
6.13.0 - 6.18.18linux
linux/Kernel
6.19.0 - 6.19.8linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.12.77linux
Linux/Linux
< 3.4
Linux/Linux
3.4
Linux/Linux
5.10.253 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux
5.15.203 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux
6.1.169 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux
6.12.77 - 6.12.*
... and 13 more
Published
Mar 18, 2026
Tracked Since
Mar 19, 2026