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GHSA-CRCH-PP65-6J6F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-03 15:32 – Updated: 2026-09-03 15:32

Details

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

selinux: do not cancel a policy conversion that never started

sel_write_load() calls selinux_policy_cancel() when sel_make_policy_nodes() fails, and that helper dereferences the outgoing policy to cancel its sidtab conversion. On the first policy load there is no outgoing policy: security_load_policy() returns early for that case, before it converts anything, and state->policy is still NULL. A first load that fails while building the selinuxfs tree therefore takes a NULL dereference in selinux_policy_cancel(), reached from a write(2) to /sys/fs/selinux/load.

Skip the cancel when there is no old policy, mirroring the check security_load_policy() already makes before it converts.

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CVE-2026-80756 (GCVE-0-2026-80756)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-03 08:26 – Updated: 2026-09-03 08:26

Title

selinux: do not cancel a policy conversion that never started

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: do not cancel a policy conversion that never started sel_write_load() calls selinux_policy_cancel() when sel_make_policy_nodes() fails, and that helper dereferences the outgoing policy to cancel its sidtab conversion. On the first policy load there is no outgoing policy: security_load_policy() returns early for that case, before it converts anything, and state->policy is still NULL. A first load that fails while building the selinuxfs tree therefore takes a NULL dereference in selinux_policy_cancel(), reached from a write(2) to /sys/fs/selinux/load. Skip the cancel when there is no old policy, mirroring the check security_load_policy() already makes before it converts.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d29983104f06f5b0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4f182f8715cb0819…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1059789ae9f99cbbe…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1acc317d67a755a45…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a42932c6aa33d0aac…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b4ff94ae7c580c88…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/219c96de5d9b6b4af…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5c0235a3c4e9eb04…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 02a52c5c8c3b8cbad0f12009cde9f36dbefb6972 , < 2d29983104f06f5b0babcd5a25a0f0408272cd27 (git) Affected: 02a52c5c8c3b8cbad0f12009cde9f36dbefb6972 , < a4f182f8715cb0819445f0850cd5436828f4bafc (git) Affected: 02a52c5c8c3b8cbad0f12009cde9f36dbefb6972 , < 1059789ae9f99cbbe3a78e361e9c0976beb5958b (git) Affected: 02a52c5c8c3b8cbad0f12009cde9f36dbefb6972 , < 1acc317d67a755a45e32419a15d70e403fa43f0e (git) Affected: 02a52c5c8c3b8cbad0f12009cde9f36dbefb6972 , < a42932c6aa33d0aac683cacdf1ec7009b955ba5d (git) Affected: 02a52c5c8c3b8cbad0f12009cde9f36dbefb6972 , < 1b4ff94ae7c580c880291519fb0e3e2bd075beef (git) Affected: 02a52c5c8c3b8cbad0f12009cde9f36dbefb6972 , < 219c96de5d9b6b4af7e8576ad897b774cc3ee9a7 (git) Affected: 02a52c5c8c3b8cbad0f12009cde9f36dbefb6972 , < e5c0235a3c4e9eb047a16cd02323fe4ecf2f570e (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.10 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.10 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.266 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.217 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.184 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.153 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.105 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.46 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.10 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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