CVE-2026-23269

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_...

high 7.1 CVSS 3.1
Published: Mar 18, 2026
Modified: May 29, 2026
Vendor: Linux
Product: Linux Kernel
Versions: 7.0

Description

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.

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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.

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