# CVE-2026-89761

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-89761
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 7.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
- **CWE:** N/A
- **Published:** Sep 11, 2026
- **Last Modified:** Sep 13, 2026

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

apparmor: fix out-of-bounds write when null terminating a label vec

aa_vec_unique() null terminates at vec[n - dups] when VEC_FLAG_TERMINATE
is passed. If the components are all distinct no duplicates are dropped,
dups is 0 and the terminator goes to vec[n], so the caller has to provide
room for n + 1 entries.

aa_label_strn_parse() sets up its vector with vec_setup(profile, vec, len,
gfp) and then calls aa_vec_unique(vec, len, VEC_FLAG_TERMINATE), but
vec_setup() does not reserve the terminator entry. Up to LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES
it uses the local array of LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES pointers, above that it
allocates exactly len pointers. The terminator therefore lands one entry
past the end of the local array when len is LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES, and one
entry past the end of the allocation when len is larger.

len comes from the number of "//&" separated components in the label name
and label_count_strn_entries() does not bound it. An unprivileged task
reaches the parse by writing to /proc/self/attr/apparmor/current or through
lsm_set_self_attr(2), both of which go through do_setattr(), and the name
is parsed before the change_profile permission is checked.
The query_label() path behind the securityfs .access file, which is
mode 0666, performs no permission check at all. Every component has to
resolve to a loaded profile, so a system with policy loaded is required.

The other two VEC_FLAG_TERMINATE users work on a label vec that
aa_label_alloc() has already sized with "+ 1 for null terminator entry on
vec". Reserve the same entry in vec_setup() and DEFINE_VEC(). Passing
len + 1 from the caller instead would move len == LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES out of
the local array and into kzalloc().

## Affected Products

- Linux — Linux (f1bd904175e8190ce14aedee37e207ab51fe3b30)
- Linux — Linux (4.13)
- Linux — Linux (0)
- Linux — Linux (6.12.109)
- Linux — Linux (6.18.50)
- Linux — Linux (7.2.4)
- Linux — Linux (7.3-rc1)

## References

- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9124e078ea2250d8d01d2162a550acb01ef5bf48)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28069434aef66b9d084f0609b7a29c171846815e)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36bdd0b45ec3f4822832a56e9db8674c8450dfce)
- [CNA](https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f1e40193eef7f047e6b77cfb4b4cafdecd7a123)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.12%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 2.1

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-18._