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CVE-2026-23409

apparmor: fix differential encoding verification

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
Linux

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix differential encoding verification Differential encoding allows loops to be created if it is abused. To prevent this the unpack should verify that a diff-encode chain terminates. Unfortunately the differential encode verification had two bugs. 1. it conflated states that had gone through check and already been marked, with states that were currently being checked and marked. This means that loops in the current chain being verified are treated as a chain that has already been verified. 2. the order bailout on already checked states compared current chain check iterators j,k instead of using the outer loop iterator i. Meaning a step backwards in states in the current chain verification was being mistaken for moving to an already verified state. Move to a double mark scheme where already verified states get a different mark, than the current chain being kept. This enables us to also drop the backwards verification check that was the cause of the second error as any already verified state is already marked.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 031dcc8f4e84fea37dc6f78fdc7288aa7f8386c3 to < ff7c73744fafe944ed9a7b2b7cf6c8d5557a3d84affected
  • 031dcc8f4e84fea37dc6f78fdc7288aa7f8386c3 to < 1439150cd3c411228b387ab5efca92199d2a659aaffected
  • 031dcc8f4e84fea37dc6f78fdc7288aa7f8386c3 to < 0fab44285445e9012674396d5c1236a67da518e0affected
  • 031dcc8f4e84fea37dc6f78fdc7288aa7f8386c3 to < f90e3ecd9e1ed69f1a370f866ceed1f104f3ab4aaffected
  • 031dcc8f4e84fea37dc6f78fdc7288aa7f8386c3 to < 34fc60b125ed1d4eb002c76b0664bf0619492167affected
  • 031dcc8f4e84fea37dc6f78fdc7288aa7f8386c3 to < 623a9d211bbbb031bb1cbdb38b23487648167f8aaffected
  • 031dcc8f4e84fea37dc6f78fdc7288aa7f8386c3 to < 1ff4857fac56ac5a90ee63b24db05fa5e91a45aaaffected
  • 031dcc8f4e84fea37dc6f78fdc7288aa7f8386c3 to < 39440b137546a3aa383cfdabc605fb73811b6093affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 4.17affected
  • 0 to < 4.17unaffected
  • 5.10.253 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.203 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.169 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.130 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.77 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.18 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 6.19.8 to ≤ 6.19.*unaffected
  • 7.0 to ≤ *unaffected

References