CVE-2026-80756

NameCVE-2026-80756
DescriptionIn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-4777-1, DLA-4788-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
linux (PTS)bookworm6.1.176-1vulnerable
bookworm (security)6.1.187-1fixed
trixie (security), trixie6.12.107-1fixed
forky7.2.6-1fixed
sid7.2.7-1fixed
linux-6.12 (PTS)bookworm (security)6.12.107-1~deb12u1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linuxsourcebookworm6.1.187-1DLA-4777-1
linuxsourcetrixie6.12.105-1
linuxsource(unstable)7.1.10-1
linux-6.12sourcebookworm6.12.107-1~deb12u1DLA-4788-1

Notes

https://git.kernel.org/linus/e5c0235a3c4e9eb047a16cd02323fe4ecf2f570e (7.2-rc7)

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