CVE-2026-68458

binder: cache secctx size before release zeroes it

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 30, 2026

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Description

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

binder: cache secctx size before release zeroes it

binder_transaction() bounds the scatter-gather buffer area with sg_buf_end_offset and subtracts the aligned LSM context size because the secctx is written at the tail of that area. The subtraction reads lsmctx.len, but that field has already been cleared by the time the line runs:

security_secid_to_secctx(secid, &lsmctx) /* lsmctx.len set */ lsmctx_aligned_size = ALIGN(lsmctx.len, sizeof(u64)) extra_buffers_size += lsmctx_aligned_size ... security_release_secctx(&lsmctx) /* memset zeroes len */ ... sg_buf_end_offset = sg_buf_offset + extra_buffers_size - ALIGN(lsmctx.len, sizeof(u64)) /* ALIGN(0,8) */

security_release_secctx() does memset(cp, 0, sizeof(*cp)), so lsmctx.len reads back as 0 and the subtraction contributes nothing, leaving sg_buf_end_offset too large by the aligned secctx size on every transaction to a txn_security_ctx node.

Each BINDER_TYPE_PTR object then derives buf_left = sg_buf_end_offset - sg_buf_offset as the sole upper bound on its copy, so the inflated end offset lets the copy run into the bytes that already hold the secctx.

The aligned size must therefore be cached before release rather than re-read from the now-cleared field. Fix by caching it in lsmctx_aligned_size at function scope when it is first computed and subtracting lsmctx_aligned_size instead of re-reading lsmctx.len after release. Reuse the same value for the earlier buf_offset computation.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 6fba89813ccf333d2bc4d5caea04cd5f3c39eb50 to before 1228926e1e4d605cc74d9e675558982a6f2cf446Affected
  • 6fba89813ccf333d2bc4d5caea04cd5f3c39eb50 to before 4257f45ee1fddd0558e77b62af8bb63fd87b2162Affected
  • 6fba89813ccf333d2bc4d5caea04cd5f3c39eb50 to before b34826e55aad3520ec813f1f367c11b24b29dc9fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.14Affected
  • before 6.14Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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