CVE-2026-23406 — Access of Memory Location After End of Buffer in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV7.2
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.70%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 1
Latest updateApr 13
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
apparmor: fix side-effect bug in match_char() macro usage
The match_char() macro evaluates its character parameter multiple
times when traversing differential encoding chains. When invoked
with *str++, the string pointer advances on each iteration of the
inner do-while loop, causing the DFA to check different characters
at each iteration and therefore skip input characters.
This results in out-of-bounds reads when the pointer …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages2 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux074c1cd798cb0b481d7eaa749b64aa416563c053 — 5a184f7cbdeaad17e16dedf3c17d0cd622edfed8+5
🔴Vulnerability Details
4GHSA▶
GHSA-56hx-r887-5w6h: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
apparmor: fix side-effect bug in match_char() macro usage
The match_char() macro↗2026-04-01
OSV▶
CVE-2026-23406: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix side-effect bug in match_char() macro usage The match_char() macro e↗2026-04-01