CVE-2026-80756 Affecting kernel-modules-extra-common package, versions <1:6.1.186-228.374.amzn2023
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- 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-modules-extra-common 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-modules-extra-common package and not the kernel-modules-extra-common 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.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-80756
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1059789ae9f99cbbe3a78e361e9c0976beb5958b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1acc317d67a755a45e32419a15d70e403fa43f0e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b4ff94ae7c580c880291519fb0e3e2bd075beef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/219c96de5d9b6b4af7e8576ad897b774cc3ee9a7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d29983104f06f5b0babcd5a25a0f0408272cd27
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a42932c6aa33d0aac683cacdf1ec7009b955ba5d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4f182f8715cb0819445f0850cd5436828f4bafc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5c0235a3c4e9eb047a16cd02323fe4ecf2f570e