CVE-2026-80756 Affecting kernel-debuginfo package, versions <1:6.1.186-228.374.amzn2023


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-KERNELDEBUGINFO-19817495
  • published15 Sept 2026
  • disclosed3 Sept 2026

Introduced: 3 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-80756  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 kernel-debuginfo to version 1:6.1.186-228.374.amzn2023 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2026-2143.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debuginfo package and not the kernel-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.