CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-80757

Low risk· EPSS 11%
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, SELinux has a vulnerability involving an out-of-bounds heap write. A class that inherits permissions from a common block can have a smaller permission count than inherited, leading to a write past the allocated array during policy load.

Risk Assessment

An attacker able to load a custom SELinux policy could cause kernel memory corruption, potentially leading to privilege escalation or system crash.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that rejects classes with a permission count below the inherited common's.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: reject a class permission count below its inherited common security_get_permissions() maps an inherited common's permissions into an array sized by the class's own permissions.nprim, but class_read() takes that nprim verbatim from the policy image and never checks that it covers the common. A class that inherits a common of N permissions while declaring a smaller nprim is accepted, and on load the common's permissions are written past the class-sized array -- an out-of-bounds heap write. Reject a class whose permission count is below its inherited common's. Well-formed policies, where the class count already includes the inherited permissions, are unaffected.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS