CVE-2026-23409

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: apparmor: fix differential encoding verification Differential encoding allows loops to be created if it is abused. To prevent this the unpack should verify that a diff-encode chain terminates. Unfortunately the differential encode verification had two bugs. 1. it conflated states that had gone through check and already been marked, with states that were currently being checked and marked. This means that loops in the current chain being verified are treated as a chain that has already been verified. 2. the order bailout on already checked states compared current chain check iterators j,k instead of using the outer loop iterator i. Meaning a step backwards in states in the current chain verification was being mistaken for moving to an already verified state. Move to a double mark scheme where already verified states get a different mark, than the current chain being kept. This enables us to also drop the backwards verification check that was the cause of the second error as any already verified state is already marked.

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-23409 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2026-23409.

URL	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ff4857fac56ac5a90ee63b24db05fa5e91a45aa
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34fc60b125ed1d4eb002c76b0664bf0619492167
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39440b137546a3aa383cfdabc605fb73811b6093
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/623a9d211bbbb031bb1cbdb38b23487648167f8a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f90e3ecd9e1ed69f1a370f866ceed1f104f3ab4a