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CVE-2026-23241 (GCVE-0-2026-23241)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-17 09:11 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:03
VLAI
Title
audit: add missing syscalls to read class
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: audit: add missing syscalls to read class The "at" variant of getxattr() and listxattr() are missing from the audit read class. Calling getxattrat() or listxattrat() on a file to read its extended attributes will bypass audit rules such as: -w /tmp/test -p rwa -k test_rwa The current patch adds missing syscalls to the audit read class.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6140be90ec70c39fa844741ca3cc807dd0866394 , < a2e8c144299c31d3972295ed80d4cb908daf4f6f (git)
Affected: 6140be90ec70c39fa844741ca3cc807dd0866394 , < ad37505ce869a8100ff23f24eea117de7a7516bf (git)
Affected: 6140be90ec70c39fa844741ca3cc807dd0866394 , < bcb90a2834c7393c26df9609b889a3097b7700cd (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.13 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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