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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: AppArmor: Allow apparmor to handle unaligned dfa tables The dfa tables can originate from kernel or userspace and 8-byte alignment isn't always guaranteed and as such may trigger unaligned memory accesses on various architectures. Resulting in the following [ 73.901376] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 341 at security/apparmor/match.c:316 aa_dfa_unpack+0x6cc/0x720 [ 74.015867] Modules linked in: binfmt_misc evdev flash sg drm drm_panel_orientation_quirks backlight i2c_core configfs nfnetlink autofs4 ext4 crc16 mbcache jbd2 hid_generic usbhid sr_mod hid cdrom sd_mod ata_generic ohci_pci ehci_pci ehci_hcd ohci_hcd pata_ali libata sym53c8xx scsi_transport_spi tg3 scsi_mod usbcore libphy scsi_common mdio_bus usb_common [ 74.428977] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 341 Comm: apparmor_parser Not tainted 6.18.0-rc6+ #9 NONE [ 74.536543] Call Trace: [ 74.568561] [<0000000000434c24>] dump_stack+0x8/0x18 [ 74.633757] [<0000000000476438>] __warn+0xd8/0x100 [ 74.696664] [<00000000004296d4>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x34/0x74 [ 74.771006] [<00000000008db28c>] aa_dfa_unpack+0x6cc/0x720 [ 74.843062] [<00000000008e643c>] unpack_pdb+0xbc/0x7e0 [ 74.910545] [<00000000008e7740>] unpack_profile+0xbe0/0x1300 [ 74.984888] [<00000000008e82e0>] aa_unpack+0xe0/0x6a0 [ 75.051226] [<00000000008e3ec4>] aa_replace_profiles+0x64/0x1160 [ 75.130144] [<00000000008d4d90>] policy_update+0xf0/0x280 [ 75.201057] [<00000000008d4fc8>] profile_replace+0xa8/0x100 [ 75.274258] [<0000000000766bd0>] vfs_write+0x90/0x420 [ 75.340594] [<00000000007670cc>] ksys_write+0x4c/0xe0 [ 75.406932] [<0000000000767174>] sys_write+0x14/0x40 [ 75.472126] [<0000000000406174>] linux_sparc_syscall+0x34/0x44 [ 75.548802] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ 75.609503] dfa blob stream 0xfff0000008926b96 not aligned. [ 75.682695] Kernel unaligned access at TPC[8db2a8] aa_dfa_unpack+0x6e8/0x720 Work around it by using the get_unaligned_xx() helpers.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-13 | Published 2026-06-03 | Updated 2026-06-03 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

e6e8bf418850d7958311a96ccfb594f2bcc8313e (git) before ec737e7fdf2f0ba7b203d4ec72cc915978b10e7e
affected

e6e8bf418850d7958311a96ccfb594f2bcc8313e (git) before 23f112bd6144e815153462e12d313ac3e7027168
affected

e6e8bf418850d7958311a96ccfb594f2bcc8313e (git) before cded636008bde2b397a7cf63b8299d7c303aaf6a
affected

e6e8bf418850d7958311a96ccfb594f2bcc8313e (git) before 64802f731214a51dfe3c6c27636b3ddafd003eb0
affected

Default status
affected

4.11
affected

Any version before 4.11
unaffected

6.12.75 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.14 (semver)
unaffected

6.19.4 (semver)
unaffected

7.0 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/ec737e7fdf2f0ba7b203d4ec72cc915978b10e7e

git.kernel.org/...c/23f112bd6144e815153462e12d313ac3e7027168

git.kernel.org/...c/cded636008bde2b397a7cf63b8299d7c303aaf6a

git.kernel.org/...c/64802f731214a51dfe3c6c27636b3ddafd003eb0

cve.org (CVE-2026-46254)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-46254)

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