CVE-2026-46055
HighCVSS 7.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs
Summary
A vulnerability related to string buffer overrun in the AppArmor module has been identified in the Linux kernel. The issue occurs when booting Ubuntu 26.04 on ARM64 architecture, leading to memory errors.
Risk Assessment
This vulnerability may allow unauthorized access to memory, posing a risk to system integrity and user data. It could also lead to system crashes.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version that includes fixes for this vulnerability. Additionally, monitor systems for unusual behavior.
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Original NVD description (English source)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: Fix string overrun due to missing termination When booting Ubuntu 26.04 with Linux 7.0-rc4 on an ARM64 Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 we see a string buffer overrun: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in aa_dfa_match (security/apparmor/match.c:535) Read of size 1 at addr ffff0008901cc000 by task snap-update-ns/2120 CPU: 5 UID: 60578 PID: 2120 Comm: snap-update-ns Not tainted 7.0.0-rc4+ #22 PREEMPTLAZY Hardware name: LENOVO 83ED/LNVNB161216, BIOS NHCN60WW 09/11/2025 Call trace: show_stack (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:501) (C) dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122) print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482) kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:597) __asan_report_load1_noabort (mm/kasan/report_generic.c:378) aa_dfa_match (security/apparmor/match.c:535) match_mnt_path_str (security/apparmor/mount.c:244 security/apparmor/mount.c:336) match_mnt (security/apparmor/mount.c:371) aa_bind_mount (security/apparmor/mount.c:447 (discriminator 4)) apparmor_sb_mount (security/apparmor/lsm.c:719 (discriminator 1)) security_sb_mount (security/security.c:1062 (discriminator 31)) path_mount (fs/namespace.c:4101) __arm64_sys_mount (fs/namespace.c:4172 fs/namespace.c:4361 fs/namespace.c:4338 fs/namespace.c:4338) invoke_syscall.constprop.0 (arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49) el0_svc_common.constprop.0 (./include/linux/thread_info.h:142 (discriminator 2) arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140 (discriminator 2)) do_el0_svc (arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:152) el0_svc (arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:80 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:725) el0t_64_sync_handler (arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:744) el0t_64_sync (arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:596) Allocated by task 2120: kasan_save_stack (mm/kasan/common.c:58) kasan_save_track (./arch/arm64/include/asm/current.h:19 mm/kasan/common.c:70 mm/kasan/common.c:79) kasan_save_alloc_info (mm/kasan/generic.c:571) __kasan_kmalloc (mm/kasan/common.c:419) __kmalloc_noprof (./include/linux/kasan.h:263 mm/slub.c:5260 mm/slub.c:5272) aa_get_buffer (security/apparmor/lsm.c:2201) aa_bind_mount (security/apparmor/mount.c:442) apparmor_sb_mount (security/apparmor/lsm.c:719 (discriminator 1)) security_sb_mount (security/security.c:1062 (discriminator 31)) path_mount (fs/namespace.c:4101) __arm64_sys_mount (fs/namespace.c:4172 fs/namespace.c:4361 fs/namespace.c:4338 fs/namespace.c:4338) invoke_syscall.constprop.0 (arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49) el0_svc_common.constprop.0 (./include/linux/thread_info.h:142 (discriminator 2) arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140 (discriminator 2)) do_el0_svc (arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:152) el0_svc (arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:80 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:725) el0t_64_sync_handler (arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:744) el0t_64_sync (arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:596) The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff0008901ca000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-rnd-06-8k of size 8192 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of allocated 8192-byte region [ffff0008901ca000, ffff0008901cc000) The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x9101c8 head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:-1 pincount:0 flags: 0x8000000000000040(head|zone=2) page_type: f5(slab) raw: 8000000000000040 ffff000800016c40 fffffdffe2d14e10 ffff000800015c70 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000800010001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 8000000000000040 ffff000800016c40 fffffdffe2d14e10 ffff000800015c70 head: 0000000000000000 0000000800010001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 8000000000000003 fffffdffe2407201 fffffdffffffffff 00000000ffffffff head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffff0008901cbf00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff0008 ---truncated---
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