CVE-2025-71306 PUBLISHED

ima: Fix stack-out-of-bounds in is_bprm_creds_for_exec()

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 08.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ima: Fix stack-out-of-bounds in is_bprm_creds_for_exec()

KASAN reported a stack-out-of-bounds access in ima_appraise_measurement from is_bprm_creds_for_exec:

BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in ima_appraise_measurement+0x12dc/0x16a0 Read of size 1 at addr ffffc9000160f940 by task sudo/550 The buggy address belongs to stack of task sudo/550 and is located at offset 24 in frame: ima_appraise_measurement+0x0/0x16a0 This frame has 2 objects: [48, 56) 'file' [80, 148) 'hash'

This is caused by using container_of on the *file pointer. This offset calculation is what triggers the stack-out-of-bounds error.

In order to fix this, pass in a bprm_is_check boolean which can be set depending on how process_measurement is called. If the caller has a linux_binprm pointer and the function is BPRM_CHECK we can determine is_check and set it then. Otherwise set it to false.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 95b3cdafd7cb74414070893445a9b731793f7b55 to ab3d16da982a4ebb715d487dbf9dd66e3990d935 (excl.)
  • affected from 95b3cdafd7cb74414070893445a9b731793f7b55 to 377cae9851e8559e9d8b82a78c1ac0abeb18839c (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.14 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.14 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.4 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0 to * (incl.)

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